Blog
Over the next few months I’ll begin posting artwork, inspiring quotes, exhibitions and student work here. My intention is to create connections and build community around various forms of creativity and healing. I would love for you to be a part of this “virtual” community! I hope you’ll join us.
Art
Symbiotic: Autumn Song – Tree Music in the Garden
Provincetown Art Association and Museum PAAM
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA, 02657
United States
Friday, October 10, 2025
11am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
12pm, and 3pm
Saturday, October 11, 2025
11am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
12pm and 3pm
Curator: James Robertson
Experience the music of plants!
From Attas’s Symbiotic series, this is the second in a suite of sound installations titled The Four Seasons – Tree Music in the Garden by sound artist Aric Attas. Emerging from the success of Summer Song, installed in PAAM’s Sculpture Garden during the 2025 Secret Garden Tour in July, this evolving suite will explore the sounds of Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Together, these works celebrate the changing beauty of Provincetown, enhancing the garden as a place for reflection and discovery throughout the year.
Autumn Song – Tree Music in the Garden turns the natural space of PAAM’s Sculpture Garden into an immersive experience as the days grow shorter. It’s a celebration of wonder, perception, and our deep-rooted connection to the constant change of the living world.
Using custom-designed electronic instruments and sensors, Attas draws on the bioelectric energy patterns within the large American Elm tree that shades PAAM’s Sculpture Garden. Signals produced by the plants’ own living processes are transformed in real time into harmonic tones, chimes, and ambient layers. The result: an evolving sonic tapestry where trees sing in harmony with birdsong, water, wind, and ambient human-made sounds.
Visitors are invited to come and go throughout the day, sit beneath the canopy, and let the sounds unfold. It’s a meditative experience—an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and connect with the natural world.
PAAM and Aric Attas gratefully acknowledge the following donors for their generous support of this installation: Marie Hernandez; Brad Lorimier & Joan Ohl; Warren Obluck & Carol Ludwig; Abigail Walters.
Artist Talks with Aric Attas
Friday, October 10, 2025
12pm and 3pm
Saturday, October 11, 2025
12pm and 3pm
In the Sculpture Garden itself, Attas will share the creative process and the natural phenomena that make Autumn Song possible. His practice blends cutting-edge technology with poetic intuition to explore unseen and unheard dimensions of the world around us. Attas’ sound installations incorporate generative ambient music, using data input from the natural world, including living plants and collected field recordings from Cape Cod, sub-tropical Central Florida, and beyond
As you wind up your Secret Garden Tour, please also step inside PAAM’s galleries.
Announcements
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) Sculpture Garden
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Sunday, July 13, 2025
10am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
12pm, 2pm, and 4pm
Monday, July 14th, 2025
11am to 5pm
Artist Talks at
1pm and 3pm
Experience the music of plants! The final stop on this year’s Secret Garden Tour is something truly extraordinary: a living, breathing garden soundscape at PAAM. Visitors are invited to slow down and listen—really listen—as the hidden music of nature is revealed in a live sound installation by acclaimed artist Aric Attas.
The installation, Summer Song – Tree Music in the Garden, turns the natural space of PAAM’s Sculpture Garden into an immersive experience. It’s a celebration of wonder, perception, and our deep-rooted connection to the living world.
Using custom-designed electronic instruments and sensors, Attas draws on the bioelectric energy patterns within the American Elm and Bradford Pear trees that shade PAAM’s Sculpture Garden. Signals produced by the plants’ own living processes are transformed in real time into harmonic tones, chimes, and ambient layers. The result: an evolving sonic tapestry where trees sing in harmony with birdsong, water, wind, and ambient human-made sounds
Visitors are welcome to come and go throughout the day, to sit beneath the canopy, absorb the sounds, and reflect. It’s a meditative finale to the tour—and a bridge to the exhibitions inside PAAM. The installation can be experienced on Sunday, July 13 from 10am to 5pm and Monday, July 14th from 11am to 5pm.
Artist Talks with Aric Attas
Sunday, July 13th, 2025
12pm, 2pm, and 4pm
Monday, July 14th, 2025
1pm and 3pm
In the Sculpture Garden itself, Attas will discuss the creative process and the natural phenomena that make Summer Song possible. His practice blends cutting-edge technology with poetic intuition to explore unseen and unheard dimensions of the world around us. Attas’ sound installations incorporate generative ambient music, using data input from the natural world, including living plants and collected field recordings from Cape Cod, sub-tropical Central Florida, and beyond.
As you wind up your Secret Garden Tour, please also step inside PAAM’s galleries to enjoy five remarkable exhibitions on view, all included with your ticket.
Go Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection (closing July 13th)
Anthony Fisher: Revisions (through July 20th)
The Napi and Helen Van Dereck Collection (through July 20th)
Director’s Choice: Shirley Gorelick in Provincetown (through September 1st)
Hartley | Hopper: Drawings from Two New England Collections (through August 17th)
Announcements
I hope you’re having a great summer so far!
Just a quick post to let you know about an event coming up this Sunday, June 22. I’ll be giving an informal gallery talk at the Community Church Gallery to coincide with my current solo exhibition titled The Light Within.
I’ll be sharing insights into the creative process behind my work, including selections from earlier series and some brand new pieces.
It’s been wonderful to see the work in this beautiful space—the art and the architecture really complement each other in an inspiring way.
The show will be up through July, so if you can’t make it Sunday, feel free to reach out to schedule a private tour. I’d love to share it with you.
Community Church of Vero Beach
1901 23rd St
Vero Beach, FL 32960
I hope to see you soon!
Announcements
Join us for lively and inspiring conversations about art and the creative process at Coffee House 1420, now on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:30. Bring some new work, questions about art, fresh ideas, or just show up and participate in the group discussion. I’ll offer critique, ideas and strategies for getting ideas off the ground and into the gallery, book or other outlets.
These sessions are available to artists of all mediums. Expect a small group of 8-12 who are interested in developing their work, overcoming creative blocks and finding their way as artists. Bring your work on a flash drive (USB) or paintings, drawings, etc. We’ll review them as a group and I’ll offer suggestions for further exploration, inspiration, artists to look at and more.
Events
STEAM Talk with Moon Music
Hallstrom Planetarium
3209 Virginia Avenue
Fort Pierce, FL 34981
Saturday, March 1, 2025
6:00-7:00PM
FREE
Have you ever wondered how Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math can inspire art? Of course you have! Come check out my STEAM talk at the Hallstrom Planetarium on the Ft. Pierce campus of Indian River State College. I’ll be sharing the creative process behind my artwork and music
This will be the premiere of my latest piece, Midnight On Earth. It’s a generative work created by using code to map the ages and diameters of craters on the moon to music!
Announcements
Live Plant Music and Guided Meditation with Sound Artist Aric Attas
The Center for Spiritual Care
1550 24th Street
Vero Beach, FL 32966
Thursday, March 27, 2025
6:30-8:00PM
Suggested donation $15.
Space is limited. Please contact me to register or call the Center for Spiritual Care at 772-567-1233.
Have you ever truly listened to the natural world?
Join us for a unique guided meditation experience where nature and sound come together to nurture your inner peace. During this session, you’ll be guided through calming visualizations, accompanied by ambient music created in collaboration with plants. Each note and texture is derived from the natural electrical vibrations of the plants themselves, harmonized through generative algorithms to create an organic, soothing soundscape.
Perfect for both beginners and seasoned meditators, this session offers a unique experience, where guided meditation and plant-based music merge to bring you to a place of serenity, balance, and reconnection with the natural world.
Symbiotic is a series of live generative music performances and recordings created in collaboration with plants. Through these collaborations I translate the electrical vibrations within plants into audible music creating compositions allowing us to hear the otherwise silent symphony of nature and experience our connection on an immersive level.
The music that emerges from this collaboration is deeply relaxing, well-suited for meditation, yoga, stress reduction, and creative activities. Unlike traditional recorded music, generative music exists only in the present moment, infinitely evolving through adaptive generative algorithms that respond in real-time to data received from live plants. There is no fast forward or rewind, only the present moment. What transpires is a deeper connection between ourselves and the natural world.
Special thanks to @reardin_creative for the photo!
Announcements
Saturday, February 22, 2025
10:00AM – 11:30AM
RAW Space
1795 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32960
This event is free/by donation. We ask that you please register here.
Our next Soundwalk will be this Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 10-11:30AM. Come check it out. I bet you’ll be surprised at what you discover!
Have you ever truly listened to your surroundings? Join us for a unique exploration of the Edgewood neighborhood, where we’ll tune into the world in ways you may have never imagined. Inspired by Hildegard Westerkamp’s concept of the soundwalk—“any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment”—this experience is designed to open your ears and awaken your senses.”
Contact me with any questions regarding this truly unique sonic adventure!
Check out Sounds of Old Dixie post to hear sounds from our recent soundwalks in Vero Beach.
Special thanks to @reardin_creative for the photos!
Event is rain or shine. 😊
Art
I’m excited to announce that I’ve recently rebooted Creative Sparks! Join us for lively and inspiring conversations about art and the creative process on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 at Coffee House 1420. Bring some new work, questions about art, fresh ideas, or just show up and participate in the group discussion. I’ll offer critique, ideas and strategies for getting ideas off the ground and into the gallery, book or other outlets.
These sessions are available to artists of all mediums. Expect a small group of 8-12 who are interested in developing their work, overcoming creative blocks and finding their way as artists. Bring your work on a flash drive (USB) or paintings, drawings, etc. We’ll review them as a group and I’ll offer suggestions for further exploration, inspiration, artists to look at and more.
2024 Schedule
Nov 20
Dec 4
Dec 11
Dec 18
Please contact me for information or to let me know you’re attending.
There’s no commitment. Simply come when you can. Each session is $25 which can be paid by Venmo or in person. Please contact me if you need other payment options.
Please enter Coffee House 1420 through the side door on 20th Street.
Click here to see blog posts for past Creative Sparks sessions.
Inspiration
Here’s one of my favorite inspiring quotes from Henri Cartier-Bresson. It’s even better hearing him say it with his French accent. Just lovely!
Sometimes we think we can create great work by making a few attempts. This quote inspires me to create lots of ideas and then choose the best, keeping in mind that sometimes I still need to keep working at it.
What inspires you to keep working?
Announcements
If you haven’t been to the Vero Beach Museum of Art to see the current exhibition Treasure Coast Creates I highly recommend you do so before it closes on September 3, 2023. Think of it as an opportunity for a burst of inspiration before summer winds down.
The exhibition features artwork from 137 artists residing in Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties. The quality of work and range of expression is fantastic! Juror Ellen E. Roberts, formally of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, and the VBMA museum staff did an amazing job curating and installing the work into a multi-themed yet cohesive exhibition. You won’t be disappointed!
I’m honored to have new work from my series Standing on the Shore of the Cosmic Ocean featured as part of this exhibition.
For more images from this new series of photographs visit Standing on the Shore of the Cosmic Ocean.
Several of my coaching clients and students are also featured in this exhibition. I’m very proud of them and encourage you to check out their work. They include Susan B. Hale, Jim Cohoe, Matt Erpenbeck, Gregory McIntosh and Lynne Hollingsworth. Here’s a link to my previous post featuring some of their work.
