Radio Lear
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Leicester Emergent Arts Radio
https://radiolear.uk
Why are we drawn to ambient drift, post-industrial memory, contemplative electronics & emergent sound cultures. This episode of the Radio Lear Podcast moves through Craven Faults, Laraaji, Floating Points, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and more
https://radiolear.uk/?p=3935
6 days ago
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Radio Lear
Rob Watson
9 days ago
Myth Bearers - Beyond Identity: What changes when we see people not only through identity, but as bearers of inherited stories, symbols and responsibilities? Could this offer a more grounded way to think about social cohesion, difference and shared civic life?
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Myth Bearers – Beyond Identity
Much of our public language now begins with identity. We ask who people are by naming the categories to which they belong. We speak of sex, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, disability, nationality, migration status, age, education and social background. These markers are not trivial. They can describe real differences in social experience. They can point to material inequalities, inherited disadvantage, cultural memory and forms of exclusion that would otherwise remain hidden.
https://robwatsonmedia.net/myth-bearers-beyond-identity/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Come for a wander, share some stories…
13 days ago
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Do you have a weird story to tell?
13 days ago
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Decentered Media
13 days ago
Could community media help more people in Leicester share local stories, skills and ideas? Join Decentered Media’s Community Media Café, Thursdays from 14th May, 10.30am–12pm at Bishop Street Chapel Café.
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Community Media Café At Bishop Street Chapel Café
Decentered Media is hosting a new weekly Community Media Café at Bishop Street Chapel Café in Leicester, starting at 10.30am on Thursday 14th May 2026. The café will take place each Thursday from 10.30am to 12pm. It is intended as an informal meeting point for people who are interested in community media, local storytelling, civic communication and practical forms of media participation across Leicester and the East Midlands. The aim is simple. We want to create a regular space where people can meet, talk, share ideas, ask questions and find out how to become involved in community media projects.
https://decentered.co.uk/community-media-cafe-at-bishop-street-chapel-cafe/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Could sound, myth and Shakespeare’s King Lear help us listen more deeply to contemporary culture? Radio Lear is developing a specialist podcast and invites contributors with sustained practice or study in these fields to get in touch
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Radio Lear Call-Out – Contributors For A New Podcast On Sound, Myth And Metamodern Culture – Radio Lear
Radio Lear is developing a new weekly podcast exploring sound, myth, depth psychology, symbolic narrative, and metamodern culture. The working title is The Lear
https://radiolear.uk/radio-lear-call-out-contributors-for-a-new-podcast-on-sound-myth-and-metamodern-culture/
25 days ago
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Could sound, myth and Shakespeare’s King Lear help us listen more deeply to contemporary culture? Radio Lear is developing a specialist podcast and invites contributors with sustained practice or study in these fields to get in touch
25 days ago
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Repetitive deconstruction…
about 1 month ago
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There’s something about sitting in silence together…
about 1 month ago
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It’s a day of listening at the Sonic Arts Forum…
about 1 month ago
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We live in mythological times, with wanderers continuing to make pilgrimages to our ancient sacred places!
2 months ago
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An inspiring evening of heartfelt art in Loughborough at Studio No17. Check out the exhibition if you can 👏🏻
2 months ago
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Radio Lear
CAMP Radio
4 months ago
Up in an hout! 6-7pm: Sound Across Distance decaying vibrations traverse time and space - sound art by jimmy Peggie
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Soar Sound Radio
4 months ago
How much creative work goes unseen? Intangible Labour and the New Folklore explores how artists, musicians and performers carry emotion, risk and care through everyday acts of making. What kinds of culture are being formed beneath the surface?
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Intangible Labour and the New Folklore Exhibition
The Intangible Labour and the New Folklore exhibition, taking place at Leicester Adult Education Gallery on Belvoir Street brings together artists, performers, and musicians who are interested in the kinds of work that usually go unnoticed. This is not labour measured in hours, wages, or output, but the quieter effort involved in creativity, care, endurance, and emotional commitment. The exhibition and the accompanying podcast explore how much artistic work happens below the surface. Artists speak about the time, risk, and personal investment involved in making images, performances, and music. Much of this labour leaves little behind once a moment has passed, yet it shapes how culture is felt and remembered.
https://www.soarsound.uk/intangible-labour-and-the-new-folklore-exhibition/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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This evening we are immersed in intangible labour, at Leicester Adult Education basement gallery
4 months ago
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Just been chatting about the Hydra for a Safer World project here at Computala
4 months ago
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We are chatting with exhibiting artists at Computala this evening with New Media Arts club
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4 months ago
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Radio Lear
Decentered Media
7 months ago
Radio Lear is now live on the Leicester and Loughborough multiplexes, sharing AI-generated and artist-made soundscapes. How might artists reimagine radio as a space for creative transformation? Follow and support through Decentered Media’s Patreon to get involved.
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Leicester Emergent Arts Radio – A Platform for Metamodern Sound and Experimentation
Radio Lear, Leicester Emergent Arts Radio, is a metamodern sound platform broadcasting on the Leicester and Loughborough multiplexes. Combining AI-generated audio with artist-created soundscapes, it offers an experimental, PRS/PPL-free space for creative exploration. Supported via Decentered Media’s Patreon, it invites artists to collaborate, contribute, and expand the possibilities of artistic radio. The launch of Radio Lear marks a milestone in developing…
https://decentered.co.uk/leicester-emergent-arts-radio-a-platform-for-metamodern-sound-and-experimentation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Radio Lear
LeicsRutFHS
7 months ago
Heritage Fair next Saturday (11th). We will be there, if local, why not pop along !
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Radio Lear
John Coster
7 months ago
Final measure up in Hansom Hall .... our 9th FREE heritage event since 2015 hosted at the Leicester Adult Education Centre takes place this weekend on 11th October 10am-3pm .... join us at the Saturday Heritage Fair
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In Leicester on DAB, and online...
7 months ago
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In a mediascape that overwhelms with fragments, how do we carve space for reflection? This week’s Distraction Therapy mix suggests music as a guide to transcendence, echoing Schopenhauer’s idea that art lets us step outside striving into a clearer, more timeless knowing.
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Distraction Therapy – Carving Out Space in the Global Noise
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.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-carving-out-space-in-the-global-noise/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
8 months ago
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Can time alone become a gift? This week’s Distraction Therapy mix asks if social isolation opens not emptiness but new ground for imagination. When the outer world quiets, can music guide us inward to that space of reflection and intuition Schopenhauer called transcendence?
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Distraction Therapy – The Quiet Gift of Isolation
Distraction Therapy: the latest mix takes solitude as method. Not absence but a clearing. Step out of the outward world and a different light appears. Attention steadies. Breath lengthens. The inner room brightens. Isolation becomes a working space for imagination. With the signal field quiet, a single tone can widen into a horizon. Rhythm loosens its grip, so intuition can map new routes of awareness.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-quiet-gift-of-isolation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
8 months ago
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Can radio still be art? When signals flood across cities, indifferent to playlists and algorithms, can they open fleeting moments of transcendence—rupturing uniformity with sound that unsettles and surprises?
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Radio Against the Grain
Broadcast radio is often dismissed as an anachronism, a relic of news bulletins, jingles, and chart rotations. Yet, its potential as an artistic medium remains vastly under-explored. Radio is not bound by walls or devices alone—it moves invisibly through cities and landscapes, enters homes and cars, and merges into the background of daily life. This omnipresence gives radio qualities that make it uniquely suited to challenge cultural uniformity and creative inertia.
https://radiolear.uk/radio-against-the-grain/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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Can radio be more than background noise? What happens when we treat broadcast as an art form—an atmosphere that reshapes how we perceive sound, music, and each other?
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Radio as Atmosphere – Transforming Broadcast into an Art of Perception
In the age of constant notifications and algorithmic playlists, it is easy to overlook the peculiar power of broadcast radio. Unlike streaming services that respond to our every click, radio flows outward, covering whole regions with its signal, indifferent to whether we are listening closely or only half-aware. This quality gives radio an artistic dimension that challenges how we perceive sound and music.
https://radiolear.uk/radio-as-atmosphere-transforming-broadcast-into-an-art-of-perception/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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Exploring existential versus spiritual identity through Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Jung, this episode of Distraction Therapy embraces metamodern reconstruction.
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Between Signs and Symbols – Metamodern Identity After Deconstruction
This episode of Distraction Therapy explores the tension between existential and spiritual identity. Existentialists frame identity as a negotiation of meanings, while essentialists root it in archetypes and symbols. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Jung, the post shows how metamodernism seeks a reconstruction after deconstruction, holding semiotic play and symbolic depth in creative tension. Identity today is argued over in two tongues.
https://radiolear.uk/between-signs-and-symbols-metamodern-identity-after-deconstruction/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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What can Jung’s vision of the Pleroma and Abraxas teach us about finding meaning today? Can music and sound guide us to hold together opposites without dissolving into fragmentation?
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Distraction Therapy – The Pleroma and the Differentiated Soul
This episode of Distraction Therapy explores Carl Jung’s vision of the Pleroma and the Seven Sermons to the Dead. It considers how differentiation and imagination give shape to the soul, and how Abraxas symbolises the unity of opposites. Framed through metamodern thought, the episode reflects on music and sound as early practices of perception and aesthetic experience, helping us navigate beyond postmodern fragmentation toward new forms of meaning.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-pleroma-and-the-differentiated-soul/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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What if music could help us hear the Pleroma itself—the undifferentiated fullness Jung described—taking form as sound? Can listening to a mix become a way of letting symbols and images emerge, more than the sum of their parts?
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Distraction Therapy – From Pleroma to Differentiation
This Distraction Therapy music mix blog explores Carl Jung’s idea of the Pleroma and Differentiation as a creative process. Drawing on Jung’s Red Book and Seven Sermons to the Dead, it reflects on how new forms emerge from the unconscious when opposites are distinguished and given form. Using metaphors of water arising from hydrogen and oxygen, it shows how metamodern aesthetics embraces transcendence and transformation, producing art and music that is more than the sum of its parts.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-from-pleroma-to-differentiation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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What happens when music becomes a mirror for the soul? Jung saw imagination as a dialogue with inner images—could a DJ mix hold that same space for contemplation? How do we listen without a plan, letting sound shape visions from within?
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Distraction Therapy – Listening to the Soul
When Carl Jung entered into the work that became his Red Book, he described it as a confrontation with the soul. He did not set out with a plan or strategy. Instead, he allowed images to rise, gave them voice, and held dialogue with them until they revealed meaning. Jung called this practice active imagination, but he also spoke of it more simply as listening: “I must let myself be carried along by what occurs… it is the path of what is to come.” Here the journey is not outward but inward, and the traveller’s task is to remain present to whatever emerges from the depths.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-listening-to-the-soul/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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How do we learn to move between opposites without clinging to one side or collapsing into the other? Nietzsche’s Zarathustra tells us to dance on the rope above the abyss. Can music teach us this same two-step of meaning?
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Distraction Therapy – Dancing the Two-Step of Meaning
To live in our contemporary world is to stand on a rope bridge stretched across a deep ravine. On one side lies the rock of tradition, firm but immovable; on the other, the shifting sands of relativism, unstable and endlessly dispersing. If we clutch too tightly to the stone, we become rigid statues, trapped in inherited dogma. If we sink into the sand, we are swallowed by endless uncertainty.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-dancing-the-two-step-of-meaning/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
9 months ago
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What does it mean to reject the system yet still feel deeply? Schopenhauer scorned Hegel’s abstractions—but is that tension still alive in our music and art scenes today? Where does your creativity draw the line between resistance and reconciliation?
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Against the System – Schopenhauer, Hegel, and the Sound of Dissent
For this episode of Distraction Therapy, we’ve tuned our focus toward the creative energy that arises from philosophical resistance. At the heart of this mix is an echo of one of the most bitter intellectual feuds in European philosophy: Arthur Schopenhauer’s contempt for Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. More than an academic rivalry, their opposition symbolises two divergent ways of understanding the world—ways that continue to reverberate through contemporary art, music, and the spaces in which we gather.
https://radiolear.uk/against-the-system-schopenhauer-hegel-and-the-sound-of-dissent/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
10 months ago
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Radio Lear
CAMP Radio
10 months ago
Listen again: Auricular Shelter / 13th July 2025 Playing tracks by Ghost and Tape, Yyate, Nahal Kayand, Fletina, Pa and more.
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Radio Lear
Decentered Media
10 months ago
What happens when media stops performing and starts caring? In this episode, Kajal Nisha Patel shares how photography, yoga & co-creation offer a different path—rooted in presence, empathy and shared meaning. What does care-centred media look like to you?
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Reimagining Care, Creativity, and Communication — A Conversation with Kajal Nisha Patel
In this episode of the Decentered Media podcast, I sit down with Kajal Nisha Patel to explore how creativity, care, and communication intersect in meaningful and unexpected ways. We talk not only about Kajal’s long-standing work as a visual artist and community practitioner but also about what it means to resist the pressures of productivity in favour of something slower, more embodied, and socially rooted.
https://decentered.co.uk/reimagining-care-creativity-and-communication-a-conversation-with-kajal-nisha-patel/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Can an artist still act as a witness to the eternal in a world obsessed with outcomes and optics? What happens to art when intuition gives way to transaction?
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The Artist as Witness – the Will and the Fate of Art in a Transactional World
In this episode of Distraction Therapy, we consider a question that refuses to go away: What is the purpose of the artist? Not the profession. Not the job description. But the role—philosophically, psychologically, and spiritually. Arthur Schopenhauer’s answer, drawn from The World as Will and Representation, is as uncompromising as it is clarifying. For Schopenhauer, the world is driven by the Will—a blind, ceaseless, and irrational force that animates all desire, all striving, and ultimately all suffering.
https://radiolear.uk/the-artist-as-witness-the-will-and-the-fate-of-art-in-a-transactional-world/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
10 months ago
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What if music wasn’t just background noise, but a way to step outside the noise of life itself? Can we still find moments of pure contemplation in a world that turns art into a service?
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Escaping the Transaction – Music, and the Lost Art of Contemplation
In this episode of The Distraction Therapy, we return to an idea that’s both ancient and urgently needed—art as a space for transcendence. Drawing on Arthur Schopenhauer’s radical notion that music is not just entertainment but a portal to something beyond the grinding machinery of life, we ask: what would it mean to take music seriously again—not as a tool, a service, or a box to tick—but as a doorway to a different mode of being?
https://radiolear.uk/escaping-the-transaction-music-and-the-lost-art-of-contemplation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
10 months ago
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What does it mean to walk the rope between past and future, meaning and uncertainty? In Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, the tightrope walker falls. But maybe the act of crossing is the point—not reaching the other side. Are we each walking that rope now?
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Walking the Rope – Meaning, Risk, and the Tightrope Walker in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
When Nietzsche introduces the figure of the tightrope walker early in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, it’s more than a theatrical flourish. It’s a moment loaded with symbolism, a moment that places the reader not just on the threshold of a new philosophy, but on the rope itself—between what was and what might be. Zarathustra, descending from his mountain to bring humanity a new vision, is interrupted by this performer crossing a rope strung between two towers.
https://radiolear.uk/walking-the-rope-meaning-risk-and-the-tightrope-walker-in-thus-spoke-zarathustra/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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Tiny gear, big ideas. On 18 June at the Real Ale Classroom, sound artists turned small devices into rich, immersive performances. What makes a space feel alive with sound—scale, or attention?
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Tiny Gear Concert 18th June 2025
On the evening of 18th June 2025, the Real Ale Classroom in Leicester played host to an event that proved you don’t need large rigs or towering speaker stacks to make an impact. The Tiny Gear Concert, organised as part of a continuing series of local experimental sound gatherings, brought together a group of adventurous performers who showed that constraint can be the mother of invention—and that intimacy can be more powerful than scale.
https://radiolear.uk/tiny-gear-concert-18th-june-2025/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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What happens when artists gather at the turning of the year, under stars and around fire? Can sound become ritual, and listening become a way to remember? This solstice, we recorded more than audio—we recorded intention. What might you hear in the stillness?
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Distraction Therapy – Ritual Light and Metamodern Cycles
In this second part of our Summer Solstice episode, we linger in the aftermath of the turning point. The sun no longer stands still, but the memory of its pause remains—etched into the fields, the sound of the wind through grass, and the rhythms that thread through our music mix. Here, in the aftermath of light’s zenith, we turn not only to sound but to symbol.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-ritual-light-and-metamodern-cycles/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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What does the solstice reveal as the sun stands still? A moment of fullness, a turn toward shadow, a thinning of the veil. What might be heard in the quiet of a field at dawn? Listen to the latest *Distraction Therapy* mix and step into the still point of the year.
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Distraction Therapy – The Still Point of the Sun
At the height of the year, when the sun stands still in the sky, something shifts. The Summer Solstice arrives not as a loud celebration but as a quiet turning—an axis of light and time. This latest episode of Distraction Therapy draws from that stillness, curating a sonic landscape that honours the tension of abundance and decline, radiance and retreat. We sit with the fullness of things, even as their fading begins.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-still-point-of-the-sun/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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What can a flower teach us about transformation? This week’s Distraction Therapy explores Goethe’s plant metamorphosis—where every leaf is a possibility, and every change has meaning. How might we listen to growth as a rhythm, not a rule?
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Distraction Therapy: The Metamorphosis of Plants – Goethe’s Vision of Living Form
This episode of Distraction Therapy tunes into the rhythm of life itself—not through technology or screens, but through the quiet unfolding of green forms in the world around us. Our focus is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants, a small yet profoundly influential work from 1790 that charts a radically different way of understanding how plants grow, change, and exist in the world.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-metamorphosis-of-plants-goethes-vision-of-living-form/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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What does a lily mean when held in the middle of a waking city? This episode of Distraction Therapy pauses in the stillness of dawn to ask what Goethe’s way of seeing might reveal about the forms we build and the lives we shape within them.
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Distraction Therapy: The City and the Leaf – Goethean Reflections on Urbanisation
In this episode of Distraction Therapy, we turn our attention away from the screen-lit towers and traffic-laced thoroughfares of the modern city, and instead, listen for the subtle rhythms Goethe might still have us notice beneath the noise. As always, the mix invites a movement—not just of sound, but of thought and feeling—away from distraction and toward contemplation. But this time, we ask: what becomes of the living form in a world that is increasingly made of concrete?
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-city-and-the-leaf-goethean-reflections-on-urbanisation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
11 months ago
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Radio Lear
Soar Sound Radio
12 months ago
Live from the riverbank! Soar Sound was out at Leicester’s Riverside Festival capturing voices, music and stories from day one. Missed the outside broadcast? Our podcast is availablr now – tune in for local sounds and community spirit. Were you there?
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Soar Sound Live at Riverside Festival – Day One Highlights
Leicester’s Riverside Festival returned this weekend with energy, colour and community spirit, and Soar Sound was there live on day one to capture the sounds, stories and celebrations from the heart of the event. Broadcasting from our pop-up studio on the De Montfort University campus, Soar Sound's team of volunteers and presenters shared a rolling programme of music, interviews, and festival commentary as thousands of people enjoyed the sunshine and riverside atmosphere.
https://www.soarsound.uk/soar-sound-live-at-riverside-festival-day-one-highlights/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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What if the real deal with the devil was giving up on meaning? Can we find new ways to feel, dream and create in a world fraying at the edges? Is metamodern music a way to begin again—not with irony, but with intention?
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Distraction Therapy – The Pact We Didn’t Know We Signed
In this episode of Distraction Therapy, we revisit the archetype of the Faustian bargain—not as an abstract myth, but as a lens through which our present moment can be refracted. Goethe’s Faust was never just about hubris or ambition. It was a study in the fragmentation of meaning and the desperate search for something worth believing in, even if it means making a pact with darkness.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-the-pact-we-didnt-know-we-signed/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
12 months ago
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What if our stories could still set the night alight with wonder, like Faust's wager beneath Walpurgis skies? Is it time to move beyond irony and rediscover the joy and danger of feeling something real?
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Distraction Therapy – Faustian Frequencies and Metamodern Reckonings
In this edition of Distraction Therapy, our musical selections are informed by one of the great turning points in European literature: Goethe’s Faust. The story of a man who wagers his soul not for pleasure or power, but for the sublime experience of life itself, still speaks to us—especially in a time where cultural meaning so often feels flattened by commercial intent and stylistic irony.
https://radiolear.uk/distraction-therapy-faustian-frequencies-and-metamodern-reckonings/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
12 months ago
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Radio Lear
Decentered Media
12 months ago
Want to keep up with ideas for rebuilding civic life through accountable, local media? Our email newsletter shares reflections, blogs, and updates that explore how community communications can support social change. Why not subscribe and join the conversation?
decentered.co.uk/newsletter/
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Decentered Media
12 months ago
Who’s shaping the future of community media in Leicester? Join us at LCB Depot on Tue 10 June, 6pm, for an open networking event bringing together not-for-profit media makers, storytellers and organisers
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Building the Future of Local Media Together – Join Us at LCB Depot on June 10th
The media landscape is changing, and it’s changing fast. As the barriers to participation shift, and the boundaries between civic life, creativity, and digital storytelling become more porous, there’s never been a more important time to strengthen the networks that support community-focussed media. That’s why we’re inviting people involved in community media and communications across Leicester to come together for an informal and open networking event at…
https://decentered.co.uk/building-the-future-of-local-media-together-join-us-at-lcb-depot-on-june-10th/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Radio Lear
ArtWorks Alliance
12 months ago
How do we ensure public arts funding supports not only institutions that attract private investment, but also grassroots, freelance-led creativity? The “Crowding In” model needs grounding in local, social, and regenerative cultural economies. Who’s funding the foundation?
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Rebalancing the Arts Economy — Beyond Crowding In, Towards Foundational Culture
A recent report commissioned by Arts Council England, Leading the Crowd: A report on the role of public investment in Crowding In, offers compelling evidence that public investment in arts and culture remains essential. It documents how institutions such as the National Theatre, Southbank Centre, and English National Opera have used public grants as leverage to secure significant additional income from private sources.
https://artworksalliance.uk/rebalancing-the-arts-economy-beyond-crowding-in-towards-foundational-culture/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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What does it mean to shed your skin in an age of constant flux? Nietzsche saw it as essential to becoming. In today's metamodern culture, is our creative process itself a kind of skin-shedding—letting go, then building anew?
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Casting Off the Skin – Nietzsche, Metamodernism, and the Practice of Becoming
At Radio Lear, we often find ourselves drawn to the deeper metaphors that underpin cultural transformation—not only as themes for broadcast but as clues for how we might live and create differently. One image that recurs with quiet insistence is Nietzsche’s notion of the snake shedding its skin—a vivid symbol of renewal through release. This image, while ancient, offers a compelling lens through which to explore the nature of metamodern culture and its continuous oscillation between deconstruction and reconstruction.
https://radiolear.uk/casting-off-the-skin-nietzsche-metamodernism-and-the-practice-of-becoming/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Can Shakespeare’s “seven ages” be reimagined as a spiral rather than a straight line? What if growth isn’t about stages passed, but meanings returned to and reinterpreted? Are we ready to hear life’s roles not as fate, but as fluid invitations?
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Distraction Therapy – Recursive Thresholds – Radio Lear
Why are we’re drawn to Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages of Man”? Surely not simply for the elegance of its verse? Perhaps for the deeper psychological and symbolic que
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When all that is solid melts into air, what remains? Can a DJ set in a gallery become a ritual for reflecting on the fragility of meaning itself? Are we ready to listen when ideas dissolve as quickly as they appear?
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Distraction Therapy – On Impermanence, Power and the Metamodern Moment – Radio Lear
There are moments in Shakespeare when the illusion of theatre dissolves and something deeper stirs—something that reminds us of our own impermanence, the fragil
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