Name: Aric Attas // Symbiotic: Winter Song – Tree Music in the Garden
Start: 2026-01-16T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-17T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 460 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02657

$Aric Attas \/\/ Symbiotic: Winter Song \u2013 Tree Music in the Garden$

This Friday and Saturday at PAAM, experience the music of plants! Artist Talks with Aric Attas: Fri., 1/16: 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm; Sat., 1/17: 1pm and 3pm
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. 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.
Using custom-designed electronic instruments and sensors, Attas draws on the bioelectric energy patterns within the large American Elm tree that towers over 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 is 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, take in the austerity of the leafless tree, and let the sounds unfold. It’s a meditative experience—an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and connect with the natural world.
In the Sculpture Garden itself, Attas will share the creative process and the natural phenomena that make Winter 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. Learn more at: healingpowerofcreativity.com