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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and the Designed Self
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and Distant Signals
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across […]
Distraction Therapy – The Sound of Exhausted Sincerity
This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through a contemporary Japanese and Japan-adjacent soundworld shaped by electronic minimalism, platform pop, balladry, actor-singer performance, soundtrack atmosphere, urban […]
Distraction Therapy – The Fragile Work of Uplift
This edition of Distraction Therapy follows a mix that moves through release, uncertainty, warmth, memory and late-night abstraction. It is not a mix built around […]
The Sound Of Emergence – A Structure Of Feeling In Japanese Music
This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese soundtrack music, technopop, electronic minimalism, guitar rock, singer-songwriter balladry and contemporary pop. What connects the tracks is […]
Emergence, Feeling and The Creative Imagination
There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of contemporary life. We have unprecedented access to information, techniques, systems and processes, yet many people struggle […]