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LumenRadio provides wireless DMX solution for Stora Teatern

Gothenburg’s Stora Teatern presents a mix of concerts, theatre and dance shows and is also a weekend destination during the summer season as Backstage, a club/DJ performance experience. Due to its multi-purpose entertainment programme and different configurations depending on the event, the show lighting rigs - including 30 moving lights - are constantly changing.

Head of lighting Joel Karlberg has installed a LumenRadio wireless DMX system which enables data signals between the lights and the control desk to be re-routed quickly. When the Backstage club is running, the main dancefloor and bar occupies what is normally the stage area and the space expands through the backstage and stage wings and outside right into the back of the venue with a large outdoor area, enabling a capacity of 1200 party people to be accommodated.

The lighting rig for the club is different from that of a visiting dance or drama show using the stage, so lights are re-rigged in different places. The main club session lights this season comprised 10 x Robe Pointes, 12 x Robe LEDWash 800s, four Clay Paky Mythos and four VariLite VL1100s plus strobes, running via wireless DMX, plus an additional 30 x static LED bars and washes. Using the inbuilt wireless cards on the Robe LEDWash 800s units, it’s possible to feed the whole rig with wireless data signals.

They have one permanent LumenRadio double transmitter (installed in the roof), two receivers, one flexible unit (that can be configured as a transmitter or receiver) and one more transmitter. A standard stage lighting rig - when the venue is receiving theatre productions - will utilize three LX pipes which are usually rigged with the 12 x LEDWash 800s, 10 x Martin Quantum Profiles and four Robe DL4S LED Profiles together with 8 x VariLite VL1100s and an additional 50 x conventional fixtures.

Additional lighting fixtures or devices like smoke machines can be linked to the lighting control console using the wireless system. For concerts and performance style shows, the DL4Ss and LEDWash 800s can be taken down and moved to other active LX bars or the floor position and patched back into the system without running data lines. Stora Teatern also has bands playing in front of the stage - standing on a covered orchestra pit - with the audience onstage rather than sitting in the stalls, so the set-up is changing constantly.

(Photos: Joel Wolter/Fredrik Sundqvist)

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