Aric Attas: Summer Song – Tree Music in the Garden

Experience the music of plants! This installation is something 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 artist Aric Attas.

From Attas’s Symbiotic series, the installation, Summer Song – Tree Music in the Garden (2025), 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

Installed over two days to coincide with PAAM’s 2025 Secret Garden Tour, visitors are welcome to come and go, to sit beneath the canopy, absorb the sounds, and reflect. It’s a meditative respite—and a bridge to the exhibitions inside PAAM.

Artist Talks with Aric Attas

Sunday, July 13th at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm

Monday, July 14th at 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. Learn more at: healingpowerofcreativity.com

Image: Aric Attas, Symbiotic {Mangrove}, 2024