Natural processes operate on time scales vastly different from our own: A flower blooming, clouds blowing across the valley during a winter storm, saplings growing to forests, mountain ranges forming and eroding away, all unfolding constantly and imperceptibly.

These algorithms together conduct life’s great symphony, a performance so grand in scale and complexity that it is unknowable in its entirety. To hear it, one must listen on the timescales of nature, over hours, days, years, a lifetime.

This is increasingly difficult in a world where attention spans are measured in seconds, and “productivity” is mandated (by our bosses, our friends, and ourselves) each day, causing in part the visceral tension between human progress and the natural world that has come to define modernity.

Imagery rendered from Timelapse in 4k is viewable below.