Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) Sculpture Garden
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Sunday, July 13, 2025
10am to 5pm
Monday, July 14th, 2025
11am to 5pm
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)
