March 18, 2012: Zepelim - The Royal Road

ZEPELIM: THE ROYAL ROAD

I have a journal where I usually write down the dreams I consider most significant, vivid or intriguing. On the night of August 22th, 2010 I had a very weird dream concerning some outlandish subjects. The next morning, I noted everything I could recall from it and closed the journal. Six months later when I read the dream entry again, it seemed even more bizarre, as if it was somebody else's dream. In order to discover what was happening in my life around that time that could make my mind produce such weirdness, I decided to make a time log of that period. I recorded every activity related to that date: computer logs, music I listened to, emails, books, conversations, and field recordings made in that month. This radio piece is the sum of that search. A radiophonic confession of a dream, or as Freud called it The Royal Road to the Unconscious.

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Carlo Patrao is a 27 year-old native of Coimbra, Portugal. He attended the University of Coimbra and has been working in radio since 2007, when he became a member of the student-run radio station Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (RUC). His education at RUC immersed him in the independent spirit of exclusively author-oriented radio programs free from the pressure of ratings, advertising, and profit-earning. Carlo began his radio career covering several areas of radiophonic activity, ranging from weekly shows featuring pop and folk music to more topical programs presenting cultural events, reviewing books and music, and promoting the work of local artists. In 2008, he created the program Zepelim with his friend Afonso Biscaia in order to explore the diverse possibilities of radiophonic space through the use of field recordings, experimental music, musique concrete, drones, archived sound and live improvisation. Episodes of Zepelim are 60-minute sound collages based on specific themes every month.  The tracklists of sounds featured in each program are annotated in his blog. In addition to his work at the radio, Carlo has a degree in Psychology and works as a therapist in the field of drug addiction.

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