Created in 1999, LIFE is the first Sakamoto's opera and also his first collaboration with Shiro Takatani who was responsible for image supervision.
The work is an attempt to examine the music of the 20th century with a macrocosmic/microcosmic view of the entire flow of art and civilization.

Modelled on various factors in the opera LIFE in 1999, their installation LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible... was conceived by the two artists in 2007.