Museum // Exhibition
The Luxembourg Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai explored nature, enterprise, connectivity and culture across four floors. We composed six orchestral chapters, giving these different sides of the country their own musical character.
The music was designed to be encountered while moving through the exhibition. Visitors could walk among instrumental groups and from one chapter into the next, discovering the pavilion through sound as well as its exhibits.
The six chapters were composed to play simultaneously while retaining their individual character. A shared motif runs through them like a sonic logo: a familiar phrase to rediscover as the surroundings and music change.
A grid of loudspeakers gives the instrumental groups different positions in the pavilion. Visitors’ routes become a way of exploring the score, bringing different parts of the orchestra into focus as they move from one musical chapter to the next.
We recorded the six chapters with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. The recordings became the material for the pavilion’s spatial sound environment, carrying the orchestra’s different instrumental voices into the exhibition.
We recorded the six chapters with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. The recordings became the material for the pavilion’s spatial sound environment, carrying the orchestra’s different instrumental voices into the exhibition.
Creating an orchestral portrait of Luxembourg that visitors can walk through.
Function of Sound
Sound gives the pavilion a continuous musical identity across its different themes and floors. It connects nature, enterprise, connectivity and culture into a single musical portrait of Luxembourg.
Content
synchronised orchestral chapters.
The six chapters can play simultaneously while retaining their own thematic character. A shared motif recurs throughout the pavilion like a sonic logo, giving visitors a familiar thread to rediscover.
Sound & Space
A grid of loudspeakers distributes the orchestral parts across the pavilion. Visitors move among instrumental groups and pass from one musical chapter into the next as they make their way through the exhibition.
Studio Contribution
We developed the sound concept, composed and arranged the music, and created the sound design. Mixing, mastering and on-site implementation carried the orchestral recordings into the pavilion.