In this reflective episode, Peter explores how music accompanies a life, like a faithful guide that helps us locate our own 'whereness' in the world. Framed as three epochs of listening, he traces early careful listening in a Greek household, the soundtrack of his working years alongside youth culture, and the ease and grace that arrive with familiar pieces that feel like old friends.

Along the way he invokes Orpheus and Eurydice, shares a living-room canon that ranges from Herbie Hancock and Aretha Franklin to Björk, Eric B. and Rakim, and Mozart, and offers a simple idea that lingers: to live a life is to compose a song and play it.

The mystery is not solved so much as honored, a reminder that music can teach, console, and carry us forward. As Churchill once said, perhaps this is not the end, but the end of the beginning.

Thank you to David Zenoff.

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Welcome back to Intentional Expressions. In this tenth episode, “WHERE I OFTEN WENT…,” host Peter Carpou reflects on the idea of the circuit - not simply as a path, but as a lived and felt return to what holds meaning. Like past conversations on rhythm, memory, and movement, this episode dwells in the spaces we revisit - people, places, thoughts - and considers how those loops form the architecture of our lives.

Whether across a day or a lifetime, Peter invites us to notice the resonance of these returns, the kinship of experience, and the quiet gravity of completing the circuit.

On this episode of the Intentional Expressions Podcast, Peter reflects on a truth learned through decades of working alongside people from all walks of life: you can’t do it alone. Whether you’re building an arts program, navigating hardship, or discovering your voice- what makes the difference is the support that surrounds you, and the spirit in which it’s offered.

Helping someone express themselves through art isn’t just a technique – it’s a quiet kind of victory. One that can ripple through a life in unexpected and lasting ways.