Field Recordings

In this workshop, participants will be shown key ways that sound artists who rely on field recordings integrate them into their practice. She will also highlight some examples of ways Stefana has integrated field recordings into her own work. Participants will spend a portion of the workshop learning how to use a field recorder and then going out together as a group in order to collect field recordings in the neighbourhood, in hopes that participants might hear the world around them a little bit differently and perhaps integrate field recordings into their own work in the future.

Instructor: Stefana Fratila

Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born composer, artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of crip rave™ collective, an event platform showcasing crip-identifying talent and prioritizing Sick, Crip, Mad and Disabled body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces. Over the years, she has received critical acclaim for her artistic work by various media outlets, including: Exclaim, The FADER, Vice, and xlr8r.

Photo description: Stefana stands in the distance, facing away from the camera. She is surrounded by lush greenery and fortress ruins. She holds a small field recorder in her right hand. It is sunny but there are stormy dark grey clouds in the background. Stefana wears an animal print dress and ball cap, suggesting it is summer.