Grainy, blurry, out of focus. In post-war Japanese photography, this was summed up in the term are-bure-boke. Photographers from the influential Provoke movement, including Daidō Moriyama, deliberately used this style: images that feel abrasive, blurred, and fragmentary. For composition student Paul Schmidt, this aesthetic formed the starting point for his new One Minute Symphony. His question: how would boke —the blurred, the fading—sound in music?

What began as an investigation into a photographic technique grew into a search for layers of sound and textures. Not everything has to be clear right away; it is precisely in the half-audible and the suggestive that music can take on meaning. In just one minute, a world of sound unfolds in which sharpness and blurring constantly interact.

You can hear the result at the concert on Friday , March Friday , at Amare, The Hague.