LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the 2012 performance in Amsterdam.

Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time with music by Philip Glass, a multimedia symphony that celebrates our living planet from the Big Bang to the present.

LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the 2nd movement, “Beginnings”

Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time with music by Philip Glass, a multimedia symphony that celebrates our living planet from the Big Bang to the present.

LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the 7th movement, “Planet of Life” 

Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time with music by Philip Glass, a multimedia symphony that celebrates our living planet from the Big Bang to the present.

LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the 7th movement, “Planet of Life”

Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time with music by Philip Glass, a multimedia symphony that celebrates our living planet from the Big Bang to the present.

Frans Lanting’s TED talk about LIFE

In this TED talk, Frans Lanting presents his LIFE Project, a lyrical interpretation of the history of life on Earth from the Big Bang to the present.

LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the East Coast Premiere performance

Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time with music by Philip Glass. Excerpt from the 2nd movement, “Beginnings.”

LIFE Symphony, excerpt from the performance at CERN

The LIFE symphony, featuring the imagery of Frans Lanting with music by Philip Glass, was performed in Geneva, Switzerland, at the official ceremony to inaugurate CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Excerpt features the full 1st movement, “Elements.”