I want to leave this Earth behind

by Stefana Fratila

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eriksitoito Amazing work by extremely talented Stefana Fratila ❤️

Brad Rose This album was featured on the 5/26/23 episode of Foxy Digitalis Daily: foxydigitalis.zone/2023/05/26/foxy-digitalis-daily-5-26-23-stefana-fratila/ Favorite track: Jupiter.

256 Pi solid collection of spacey ambience and dark experimental abstraction, do always enjoy me a bit of a solar system trek every once in a while Favorite track: Earth.

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about

Between December 2018 and 2019, Fratila embarked on a series of research trips across North America (including to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre), meeting with astronomers and scientists in order to address a complex question: “If each planet in our solar system were a different room, what would each room sound like?”

Her ongoing creative research culminated in Sononaut, eight open-source VST plug-ins created for digital audio workstations (DAWs) that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets in our solar system (made in collaboration with artist Jen Kutler, using calculations by NASA astronomer and planetary scientist Dr. Conor Nixon).

During a residency at CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) in Morelia, Mexico, Fratila began writing the album on an octophonic sound system. Afterwards, from her home studio in Toronto, she recorded additional synthesizer parts, finalized arrangements, and incorporated Sononaut into the album’s production.

"I want to leave this Earth behind" will be released April 21st 2023 on Halocline Trance (HTRA034) and Not Not Fun (NNF406). The VSTs will be available to download on the same day as the album's release.

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released April 21, 2023

– I want to leave this Earth behind –
Written, Recorded and Produced by Stefana Fratila
Mixing Engineer: Jeremy Greenspan
Tape Operator: Greg Jones
Mastering Engineer: Sage Kim at Lacquer Channel Mastering

– Weather Loops –
Written and Produced by Stefana Fratila
Mixing Engineer: Lisa Conway
Mastering Engineer: Sage Kim at Lacquer Channel Mastering

Cover Art: Diana Lynn VanderMeulen
Vinyl Graphic Design: Haley Parker
Cassette Graphic Design: Britt Brown

This album was made with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada's private radio broadcasters.

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Stefana Fratila Toronto, Ontario

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. ... more

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