Light designer Celestino Munoz

Without the computer really nothing would work in the Light-cockpit.
The audience wants quality - so it is with the light-effects indeed!
In the largest Circus of Europe, High Tech developped to a
autonomous attraction since long times ago.

Two computers, two switchboxes and 170.000 Watts The 36-years-aged Portuguese is an academic in electrical engineering and light design. Already since six years he controls the computer-aided lighting system at Circus Krone. For him it simply is his dream job. Tino's workshop place looks like the cockpit of  an airplane: In between hundreds of switches, buttons, and sliders many yellow and red small lamps are flashing. Out of electronic switchboxes, as large as wardrobes, comes the motorial humming of the ventilators.

However, he doesn't have much room. The largest part of his barely five-square-metres-sized 
cabin is occupied by his equipment. Only the rotating seat's still remaining for him from which he 
handles his instruments. By usage of his headset, Tino Munoz directs six lighting technicians 
and with his mixer unit he controls 140 light devices, nine scanners an further special effects.

On a color monitor he watches the correct operation and staging of the programmed light atmospheres.
In case of trouble he always has to be reachable for the director. His most horrifying nightmare 
would be, if the complete lighting and even the emergency lighting would break down during a 
wild animal performance and the tamer gets lost without knowing where her tigers are sitting.

His declared objective: 
"The best lighting management for the best Artists of the World"
You can see it every day at Circus Krone!

However, he doesn't have much room. The largest part of his barely five-square-metres-sized  cabin is occupied by his equipment. Only the rotating seat's still remaining for him from which he  handles his instruments. By usage of his headset, Tino Munoz directs six lighting technicians  and with his mixer unit he controls 140 light devices, nine scanners an further special effects. On a color monitor he watches the correct operation and staging of the programmed light atmospheres. In case of trouble he always has to be reachable for the director. His most horrifying nightmare  would be, if the complete lighting and even the emergency lighting would break down during a  wild animal performance and the tamer gets lost without knowing where her tigers are sitting. His declared objective:  "The best lighting management for the best Artists of the World" You can see it every day at Circus Krone!

Tino Munoz is married with Tania Jahn-Munoz. 
The former aerialist is a descendant of the famous "Turnvater Jahn". 


They have two sons: 
the twelve months old Tyrone and the seven years old Sven. 

eMail-adress: 
Tino_Munoz@circus-krone.de
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