Distraction Therapy – The Next Movement
Some journeys begin with a clear destination. Others begin with a face glimpsed through motion, a remembered voice, or the quiet sense that it is [...] Source
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Distraction Therapy – Use the Light While It’s Here
Summer asks something simple of us: don’t waste the light. That doesn’t mean booking a grand trip, filling every weekend or forcing ourselves to have fun. [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – What If Getting Lost Isn’t Always a Mistake?
We spend a lot of time being encouraged to choose a destination, find the quickest route, and keep moving forwards. There’s comfort in having a [...] Source
Looking Up – Julian Sahu on Photography, Memory and Making One Image Count
What changes when we stop scrolling and start looking? In this episode of Distraction Therapy, Rob Watson meets photographer Julian Sahu in the courtyard at Leicester’s [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Leaving Room for What Has Not Happened Yet
How far into the future do we need to imagine before the present becomes bearable? Tomorrow can still feel close enough to picture. The day [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Where Attention Refuses to Stay
What happens when the way we feel no longer fits the life we are expected to lead? This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through songs [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Between the Everyday and the Unreachable
This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through several layers of contemporary Japanese music culture: independent guitar music, established melodic rock, singer-songwriter pop, bilingual British-Japanese avant-pop, [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Music Against The Finality Of Things
This edition of Distraction Therapy begins with a reassurance, although not quite a promise. In the Pet Shop Boys’ version of It’s Alright, music is [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – The Light That Remains
This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, film music and orchestral arrangement as though following a river from daylight into dusk. The [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Music for the Interior Night
Some mixtapes establish their meaning through genre. Others work through atmosphere, juxtaposition and emotional association. This edition of Distraction Therapy belongs to the second kind. [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Japan, Memory And Reinvention
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, electronic music and soundtrack composition. It is not intended as a comprehensive account of Japanese music. [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Miffy Ryan on Music, Memory and Attention
What does it mean to use music as distraction? Does it take us away from immediate experience, or can it return us to the body, to [...] Source
Distraction Therapy — Inner Worlds, Distant Signals and Japanese Pop
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese rock, electronic pop, dance music and independent digital production. Across the mix, familiar images return. Love. Silence. Distance. [...] Source
Distraction Therapy – Signals, Ruins and Rearranged Memory
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. Between private memory and collective history. Between natural [...] Source