https://stefanafratila.com Stefana Fratila Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:39:23 +0000 https://stefanafratila.com en https://stefanafratila.com/Desktop Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:19:19 +0000 Stefana Fratila https://stefanafratila.com/Desktop Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born artist, composer and sound designer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of Crip Rave. <img width="141" height="149" width_o="141" height_o="149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d4ca20e1d437c48e363b8ebf6830a3ec282683f7bfc14fb9def0cab41814f4e/Quark.gif" data-mid="156434498" border="0" data-draggable data-rotation="12.5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/141/i/7d4ca20e1d437c48e363b8ebf6830a3ec282683f7bfc14fb9def0cab41814f4e/Quark.gif" /> https://stefanafratila.com/Bio Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:39:23 +0000 Stefana Fratila https://stefanafratila.com/Bio Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born artist, composer and sound designer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of Crip Rave, an event platform showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad, and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces.
 She created Sononaut, 8 open-source VST plug-ins that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets in our solar system in collaboration with NASA scientists and Jen Kutler. She has exhibited and performed her work internationally, including at MoMA and e-flux (New York, USA), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), MUTEK (Montréal) / MUTEK.AE (Dubai), and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Paris, France). She has also completed residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Wave Farm Transmission Arts, SAT (Société des arts technologiques), and CMMAS (Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts). She was a winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing (2022), Best Sound Design in a Feature Length Documentary (2024), and the Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing (2023). Her film scores have screened at Le Centre Pompidou, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, Leeds International Film Festival, and The Viennale. Resident Advisor called her most recent album, I want to leave this Earth behind, “a spellbinding LP of sound art that delights and unnerves in equal measure” while Bandcamp Daily highlighted it as “41 minutes of space travel that perfectly capture the immense possibilities of sound.” She has opened for artists like Mary Lattimore, Claire Rousay, Lucretia Dalt, and Julianna Barwick. Under her alias DJ Crip Time, she has appeared on NTS Radio (London), Rinse France (Paris), The Lot (New York), Refuge Worldwide (Berlin), Radio Nopal (CDMX), HKCR (Hong Kong), n10.as (Montréal), SutroFM (San Francisco), and Hotel Radio Paris.&nbsp; <img width="4339" height="6509" width_o="4339" height_o="6509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b18de5e6cd4a4c19aba1fb2b3a7e11063da221af3e3c207f541fac3070f5b9b1/SAT-x-Mutek---I-Want-to-Leave-this-Earth-Behind---23-08-26----Ash-KG-subtletherapy.com--8-6mb.jpeg" data-mid="204315281" border="0" data-scale="73" data-no-zoom data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b18de5e6cd4a4c19aba1fb2b3a7e11063da221af3e3c207f541fac3070f5b9b1/SAT-x-Mutek---I-Want-to-Leave-this-Earth-Behind---23-08-26----Ash-KG-subtletherapy.com--8-6mb.jpeg" /> <img width="1000" height="676" width_o="1000" height_o="676" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/049089c78e64faac8f87b52feaf96aaf4bf8546708c85d8459150c8205d908e6/ThePowerPlant.jpeg" data-mid="156432814" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/049089c78e64faac8f87b52feaf96aaf4bf8546708c85d8459150c8205d908e6/ThePowerPlant.jpeg" /> <img width="3089" height="2048" width_o="3089" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aae689f91cf4e97d126c86799065e950ab475934b5d7ff79ffb99b9e4c30cb63/000095280023.jpg" data-mid="181218309" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aae689f91cf4e97d126c86799065e950ab475934b5d7ff79ffb99b9e4c30cb63/000095280023.jpg" /> Image CreditsTop photo by Ash KG. Visuals by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen. Middle photo by Kate Killet. Visuals by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen.Bottom photo by Patrick Cruz. Visuals by Peter Rahul.