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Corona: Emilio Aguilar uses Obsidian console for Arnoldo Castillo Anniversary livestream

Like many in the lighting industry, Costa Rican lighting professional Emilio Aguilar has used the pandemic downtime to learn new competencies and better his skill set. Finding himself back home in Costa Rica last spring following Cirque du Soleil’s bankruptcy, Aguilar got in contact with longtime collaborators Luces y Sistemas, the exclusive distributor of Obsidian Control Systems products in Costa Rica.

Aguilar has worked as a college professor of theatre design, as well as freelancing as a lighting designer and programmer/operator for the past twenty years. His adept resume also includes working for RSTV, an entertainment technology provider in Central America, as well as a tenure at Cirque du Soleil. Since July 2020, he has used the Obsidian NX2 lighting console on about a dozen different gigs, including a livestream transmission celebration of the 20th Anniversary of singer Arnoldo Castillo’s career.

Castillo, a businessman and Costa Rican pop singer, is an artist Aguilar knows well, having designed the lighting for his band Los Tenores. Produced by Universal Entertainment Production Company, the special Anniversary livestream show was broadcast in early November 2020 from Estudio 14 in Costa Rica, a recently refurbished warehouse space that is now a private studio.

Aguilar handled the stage and lighting design for the livestream show and used the NX2 to program a total of seventeen songs plus another series of looks for TV. In total, he used four universes with one of those sACN to control Beyond laser design software. Pre-programming was done using Capture lighting design software.

(Photos: Emilio Aguilar/Luis Alvarado/David Chacón)

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