Distraction Therapy – Mix-Tape Feelings
What happens when a mix begins with the feeling of being named, tagged, measured and watched? Part Two of Distraction Therapy moves through a more […]
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Distraction Therapy – Mixed Feelings
What kind of feeling does a mix create before we can explain it? This first hour of Distraction Therapy begins with Brian Eno’s “An Ending […]
From Japan With Love – NIGO, Field Notes, and the Sound of Collected Things
Distraction Therapy with Rob Watson now goes out on Soar Sound, community radio from Leicester and across the East Midlands, on Wednesdays from nine to […]
Distraction Therapy – Listening to the Room
Distraction Therapy is broadcast on Soar Sound on Wednesdays, 9pm to 11pm. This episode of Distraction Therapy includes a short edited feature recorded at a […]
Distraction Therapy – Music For Journeys Not Yet Taken
What is a mixtape for? Not only to collect songs. Not only to show taste. Not only to keep a record of what was listened to […]
Distraction Therapy – Between Memory, Signal And Dream
What is a mixtape for? Is it a map, a diary, a spell, a sequence of rooms, or a way of quietly rearranging the furniture inside […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Returning To The Sincere
This edition of Distraction Therapy gathers music that seems to hover at the point where private feeling becomes audible, but before it has hardened into […]
Distraction Therapy – Expressive Authenticity and AI-Augmented Expression
This episode of Distraction Therapy sits in a productive tension. On one side, it draws from recognisable strands of Japanese alternative rock, pop, remix culture […]
Japanese Indie, Rock and The Feeling Of Passing Through
This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Quiet Thresholds
This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks […]