Helena Czerwińska-Drak is a sound engineer with a classical music background in piano and eurhythmics. In 2024, she began making music under the name Toniska -- searching for musical freedoms that drift between tonality and atonality, guided by musical intuition, venturing sometimes into entirely uncharted waters.

At 1000ears, Toniska will perform on the self-built Apprehension Engine - an electroacoustic multi-instrument producing eerie, ominous sounds, designed by Tony Duggan-Smith. The artist built the Apprehension Engine as a part of her master thesis focused on sound design in horror films and uses it for musical improvisations and sound design, creating music that plunges into the depths of dread and reverie.