Provincetown Art Association and Museum PAAM 460 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA, 02657 United States
Friday, April 10, 2026 12pm to 8pm Artist Talks at 12pm 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm
Saturday, April 11, 2026 12pm to 5pm Artist Talks at 1pm and 3pm
Aric Attas, Symbiotic {American Elm – Spring}, 2026
Experience the music of plants!
This is the fourth in a suite of sound art 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 2025, this evolving suite will explore the sounds of Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Together, these works celebrate the changing beauty of Provincetown, creating a place for reflection and discovery throughout the year.
Spring Song – Tree Music in the Garden turns the natural space of PAAM’s Sculpture Garden into an immersive experience as the dormant landscape awakens again. It’s a celebration of wonder, perception, and our deep-rooted connection to the constant change of the living world.
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
Aric Attas, Symbiotic {American Elm – Autumn}, 2025
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.
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.
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