Symbiotic {Laurel Oak} is here! My first album with Hearts of Space Records is now available everywhere, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you.
Part of my ongoing Symbiotic series, this music was created in nature in collaboration with a living Laurel Oak tree. By translating the tree’s subtle electrical energy patterns into sound, I’ve created ambient compositions that unfold slowly and organically, mirroring the rhythms of the natural world.
This soundscape is ideal for meditation, yoga, creative work, or simply taking time to pause and listen. My hope is that it invites a sense of curiosity, presence, and wonder, the same qualities that inspired me to create it.
For Annabel
You can listen now on your favorite streaming platform, including YouTube and Bandcamp. The album is available in two forms: 🌿 a 12-track album 🌿 and a long-form edition with over an hour of uninterrupted ambience
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.
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!
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