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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]