World Expo Osaka 2025 covers a 960-acre site on the Yumeshima (Dream Island), with more than 160 countries showcasing their cultures, crafts, technologies and visions of the future in a series of exhibits.
The France Pavilion, designed and operated by official French exhibition organisers Cofrex is expected to welcome more than 20,000 visitors each day over the coming 6 months.
“If there were just one feeling associated with the French mindset, it would be love” believes French President Emmanuel Macron and it is a French vision of the world, a paean to love, boldness and dialogue, that he expects visitors to the France Pavilion will discover.
With music and sound central to an immersive visitor experience, specially composed music and sonic content developed by IRCAM, the French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, is delivered by a system comprising more than 250 individual Nexo loudspeakers installed throughout the France Pavilion.
Compact GEO M line arrays cover the area in front of the Pavilion, while an ID14 LCR system is virtually invisible in the entry lobby.
Also visually discreet is the ID14 system in the first art installation featuring an Aubusson tapestry by Hayao Miyazaki, then on up a walkway covered from above by 16 x Nexo ID14s delivering a wavefield synthesis by IRCAM composers.
Aural and visual experiences from AXA combine work by the musician Rone, the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and the filmmaker Thierry De Mey, delivered by a ‘cinema style’ Nexo P18 system with L20 subs hidden behind the curved screen and complemented by ID14 and ID24 top and surround speakers.
In Dior’s space, compact ID14s are mounted on hidden brackets and finished in white to complement the display of collections that create an ode to the virtuosity of the Parisian Ateliers.
Nexo’s ePS Outdoor speakers have been installed in a tranquil garden which is watered every day and features a 1000-year-old olive tree, before visitors head underground where Nexo P8s and L15 subs help to create the atmosphere in the cellars of the Alsace vineyards.
Amplification and processing for the installation come from a total of 65 x Nexo powered TD Controllers, drawn from both nanoNXAMP and NXAMPMk2 ranges.