Provincetown Art Association and Museum PAAM 460 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA, 02657 United States
Friday, January 16, 2026 12pm to 8pm Artist Talks at 12pm 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm
Saturday, January 17, 2026 12pm to 5pm Artist Talks at 1pm and 3pm
Aric Attas, Symbiotic {American Elm – Winter}, 2026
Experience the music of plants!
This is the third in a suite of sound art installations titled The Four Seasons Suite: 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, creating a place for reflection and discovery throughout the year. Autumn Song was presented at PAAM in October.
Now, Winter Song – Tree Music in the Garden turns the natural space of PAAM’s Sculpture Garden into an immersive experience in the thin light of the coldest season. 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.
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)
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