Spira Theatre goes 100% wireless

Spira is the home for music and theatre for the Småland region in southern Sweden. Based in Jönköping, the culture centre was opened in 2011 and acts as a large hub for the whole of the area. Spira has 4 stages – 1 theatre stage in a room which accommodates around 400 people, one concert hall for an audience of about 900, a smaller room with space for 160 people and a stage in the cafeteria where 130 people can sit.

The centre has a broad scope, offering culture lovers everything from theatre and musicals to dance shows and children’s productions.

Hans-Richard Eriksson is Lighting Director at Spira and has worked with theatre lighting in Jönköping since 1980. When the decision was taken to create Spira as a cultural hub, he was able to design exactly how he wanted the lighting system to look – and he chose to go 100% wireless.

“Wireless DMX gives us much greater creative flexibility. For moving walls and scenery which needs to be lifted up and down, cables are not an option.”

Hans-Richard Eriksson, Lighting Director at Spira Theatre

Hans-Richard has over 100 fixtures at his disposal and all are controlled with wireless DMX using LumenRadio’s CRMX.

“We now stream straight from our lighting controllers using sACN,” he adds. “We send data for multiple universes using Ethernet across our network. A Stardust picks up the sACN signal and transmits it to Aurora receivers placed throughout the building. We have wireless everywhere and not a cable winder in sight!”