Painter Teresa Parod and Composer and Software Developer Bill Parod have been collaborating on multi-media public art. Their work combines mural paintings with situated spatial music and sound art using a custom Augmented Reality (AR) mobile app.
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Crossroads is a new project to bring this approach into a gallery setting by combining Teresa Parod's paintings with associated works of Bill Parod's spatial music, realized in a mobile app and multichannel exhibition space. Each of the Crossroads paintings contribute interacting spatial music to the gallery space when viewed with the Crossroads AR mobile app. The music is formed from musical characters and bird groups, interacting in the 3D virtual space of the mobile app and and in the shared space of the gallery through multichannel speaker dispersion, forming an interplay of visual, aural, and viewer/listener participation. This app was prepared for presentation at the IRCAM Forum - Special Edition ART/VR Spatialization, Paris, March, 2023.