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...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsSociety & Culture
Rob Watson's Media Podcast
Rob Watson’s irregular playlist and ramblings, in which things that interest Rob are mulled over and discussed. Occasional guests, friends, interviews, location podcasts and other stuff.
Rob Watson's Media Podcast Podcast Guide
Listen to Rob Watson's Media Podcast, a Society & Culture podcast by Rob Watson. Stream 24 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
Show Topic
Browse this show under Society & Culture podcasts.
Episodes
20 episodes are loaded now from a catalog of 24. More episodes can be opened from this page.
Discover More
Explore Society & Culture podcasts, United Kingdom podcasts and English podcasts.
Episodes
20 of 24 episodesDistraction Therapy – Signals, Ruins and Rearranged Memory
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. B...
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 mi...
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...
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, pla...
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....
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-songwrite...
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 processe...
Distraction Therapy – Feeling Carried Into The World
This edition of Distraction Therapy is arranged around the idea of cultural emergence. That phrase can sound abstract, but the experience it...
Distraction Therapy – Creative Emergence and Open House
What happens when art leaves the gallery and returns to the places where people live? That question sat quietly in the background as I visit...
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...
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 f...
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 featu...
Distraction Therapy – Constellations of Meaning, Youth, and the Unlived Psyche with Dr Bret Alderman
There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Ro...
Distraction Therapy – January Unfolding with Matthew Colthup
This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it ope...
Distraction Therapy 003 – Reflections After Japan
This week’s recording was shaped by the steady rain outside and the slow process of returning to everyday routines after two weeks in Japan....
Symbols in the Heat: Reflections on Zarathustra, Jung, and the Eternal Return
As I recorded today’s Distraction Therapy podcast, I found myself once again at Leicester Cathedral, shaded from the intense summer heat, co...
Beginning the Descent – A Jungian-Metamodern Journey Into Zarathustra
It’s a warm, blustery Monday afternoon in Leicester, and I’m sitting in the cathedral gardens with a notebook and a recorder. After some tim...
Distraction Therapy Podcast – Test
This is a test upload for the new home for the Distraction Therapy podcast. Source