The Viña del Mar International Song Festival (Spanish:
Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar) is a music festival held
annually since 1960 in Viña del Mar, Chile, and considered one of the most
important musical events in the Americas.
Staged at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheatre, the festival
features a song competition with two categories (pop music and folk songs),
interspersed with performances by international music stars from around the
world, encompassing a diverse mix of genres like rock, multi-lingual pop,
merengue, salsa, reggaetón, bachata and many others.
To deal with this variety in the music lighting designer
Luis Pastor trusted in a highly flexible lighting control – the grandMA2. In
total he used an MA System comprised of 2 x grandMA2 full-size 2 x grandMA2
light, 4 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit), 6 x MA 2Port Node and 2 x MA VPU
plus MK2 (Video Processing Unit) to control over 270 moving lights plus plenty
of LED fixtures and video screens.
Pastor explained why he strongly supports the use of MA:
“This was the fourth edition of this festival in which we were involved. Like
the last shows, we counted on the MA system to control all the lighting – TV lighting
and moving lights, etc. This year for the first time we used an MA VPU for
video control with two outputs in HD. The MA VPU provided us also with
real-time SDI inputs. The capacities to adjust using this made our lives easy.
The synchronicity and synergy of the console in connection over MA-Net2 with
the MA VPU also made a huge difference. Furthermore, this we worked with
variable speed motors that we programmed in MA 3D which also made our job
easier and saved a lot of time during artist rehearsals.”
Frank Janssens worked as assistant LD, Paulo Lebrão and
Juan Pablo Muñoz programmed the show with Luis Pastor. Orbita Produciones
delivered the lighting equipment.
Photos: © Lorena Persson Hervia?
