Astera goes intergalactic with Alfred Garcia
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Emerging from popular TV talent show Operación Triunfo, this was Alfred Garcia’s first full production tour to date and the first time that Teixi had worked with the artist, who headhunted him to be part of his creative team after the series’ 2017 season. Alfred Garcia’s first studio album 1016 was released at the end of 2018 and shot straight to number 2 in the Spanish album charts, and the tour campaign to support it ran from February to November 2019.
The lighting design was initially inspired by scenographer Lluis Danes’ set, and the brief was to bring a bit of extra ‘magical touch’ to the stage with the lighting. From Earth to Mars is one of Alfred Garcia’s biggest hits, so the aesthetic took an intergalactic direction.
A textured piano and matching risers onstage were a central part of the look, ideally lending themselves to being lit. Together with an upstage set piece constructed from metal plates, a spaceship-like appearance started to evolve.
It was onto this metal surface that the 30 x AX3s were fixed each day in a six wide by five high matrix pattern.
It was the idea of working with a back wall of light that had originally made Teixi choose AX3s because the fixtures can simply be snapped on to the metal plates via their magnetic bases.
The last concert of the Alfred Garcia tour was in Barcelona’s Sant Jordi Club when they added an LED video screen upstage and adapted the positioning of the metal plates / AX3s to surround that screen.
Since then, Teixi has used Astera products on other events including the XII GAUDÍ Awards – Catalan’s version of The Oscars – which was staged at Barcelona Convention Centre where 22 x Titan Tubes were deployed.
(Jim Evans)
