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Crossroads AR is a new project to bring this approach into a gallery setting, by combining Teresa's oil painting and Bill's spatial music in a mobile app and multichannel exhibition space.  The main view presents an AR camera that recognizes Teresa’s Crossroads paintings and responds by launching a set of ensembles formed for that painting.  The Crossroads music is formed from over 500 improvised 5-string violin phrases, grouped into roughly 100 musical expressions by 25 different musical characters.  Their work combines mural paintings with situated spatial music in Augmented Reality (AR) mobile apps.  A living musical experience of natural though unexpected evolution - like life on a coral reef, or in a forest, or in an urban plaza - is the aesthetic of this music.  That seemed like a good place to start, to explore the concept and connect with the feelings of Teresa’s Crossroads paintings.  VR2 is a mockup of the IRCAM exhibit space where Crossroads AR was first shown in March 2023.  The ensemble’s characters are visually represented with ribbons of the imagery with birds taken from Teresa’s mural, Midwestern Birds.  All these ensemble groups travel in flocks of various sizes, motion, and expanse - affecting and being affected by others they encounter.  Each uses variants of the ensembles used in the AR view with slightly different sizes and behaviors.  Painter Teresa Parod and Composer and Software Developer Bill Parod collaborate on multi-media public art.  Others express more nuanced feelings in more complex harmonies and tonalities, ranging from dark to jubilant.  Its debut was at the IRCAM Forum - Special Edition ART/VR Spatialization, Paris, March, 2023.  VR1 is a preview of a new work in development for the AppleTV platform, which uses the ensembles.  In this way, the viewer expands the size and expressive scope of the music.  Some of these characters play simple phrases in simple harmonies.  If the original paintings are not available, the app is also responsive to their digital versions.  When two roads intersect, they present three choices in where to go or which direction to take.  Either direction could have been a very nice life, but we have pivotal choices.  The little dramas and natural transitioning of these behaviors is the music’s primary compositional effort.  All are responsive to each other and with the ensembles already present.  We come to crossroads all the time in our lives.  In all cases, the music evolves naturally on its own.  That impact might be immediate or delayed, minor or profound.  Toolbar VR1 supports touch toggling the toolbar off and on.  Zoom VR2 supports one-finger zoom and pan.  You make a decision which direction to go.  This may be useful when doing video capture.  One can simply put on headphones, put down the phone, and listen.  There are also two VR views.