Aric Attas // Symbiotic: The Four Seasons – Tree Music In the Garden (Day 1/2)

Experience the music of plants! 

The Four Seasons is a multi-space sound installation where data from the natural world becomes continuously evolving music, shaped by the changing seasons.

Expanding on Summer Song, presented in PAAM’s Sculpture Garden during the 2025 Secret Garden Tour, Attas subsequently installed Autumn Song, Winter Song, and Spring Song over the past year in the same exterior space. Bringing the four pieces together, this new installation unfolds as a four-part suite shaped by Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer.

Three interior galleries will feature generative sound works created from data collected across Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Each piece evolves over time, shaped by the subtle electrical energy patterns recorded from the American Elm during those seasons. Together, they form distinct yet connected listening environments, each reflecting a different phase in the annual cycle.

Summer will take place outdoors as a live installation in PAAM’s Sculpture Garden, where visitors can experience the sounds of the American Elm in real time. Again this year, the installation will coincide with PAAM’s 2026 Secret Garden Tour.

Across all four spaces, The Four Seasons creates a place for reflection, curiosity, and quiet discovery, where seasonal change becomes something you can hear. 

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, or wander through the galleries to experience the sound of the American Elm in Autumn, Winter, and Spring. The Four Seasons is grounded in observation and curiosity. It offers a space where visitors can slow down, tune their attention, and experience the environment not as something separate, but as something unfolding around them.

Artist Talks with Aric Attas

Sunday, July 12th at 1pm and 3pm

In the Sculpture Garden itself, Attas will share the creative process and the natural phenomena that make The Four Seasons possible. His practice blends cutting-edge technology with poetic intuition to explore unseen and unheard dimensions of the world around us. Attas’s 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