Distraction Therapy: carving space in the global noise. The mediascape is sprawling and incessant. Feeds fragment attention and pull it outward. Meaning is not given. It must be made.
Isolation, in this context, is a threshold, not an exit. It is boundary-setting for reflection. By quieting the signal field, we create a room for listening where intuition can work. Music then acts as counterweight to dispersion, holding attention in coherent patterns rather than shards.
Schopenhauer’s account of aesthetic contemplation helps to name this shift. In listening, we set down striving and attend without demand. Music does not copy the world; it discloses its ground. Even briefly, this posture restores orientation in a landscape built to distract.
The practice is active. Artists, DJs, and listeners must compose refuges inside the stream: mixes as temporary architectures, sequences as wayfinding. These forms stitch fragments into resonance. They invite return to the world with steadier focus and a larger field of meaning.
In a world where overwhelm is ordinary, the creative act becomes navigation. Carve the room. Keep the listen. Let intuition map what comes next.
Notes

* On aesthetic contemplation and the will: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer-aesthetics/
* Primary text: Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, trans. E. F. J. Payne (public-domain scans). https://archive.org/details/arthur-schopenhauer-the-world-as-will-and-representation-2-volumes
* On music as “copy of the will itself”: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “History of Western Philosophy of Music since 1800.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hist-westphilmusic-since-1800/