Starting from her own understanding and interpretation of clubbing, musician and producer tonota is increasingly turning to an improvisational approach in her solo live sets. She aims to deepen the communication and connection with the audience by responding to listeners through further elaboration of the musical material. Her starting point is a set of prepared tracks combined with guitar material and various loops, but she draws inspiration from the live situation itself, using it as a creative tool. The opening moments of tonota’s sets are often very atmospheric — ambient tex-
tures that, while containing elements of noise, only gradually allow for dynamic growth and rhythmic development. Her musical expression, in addition to club beats, also includes rhythms atypical for the club context, which, paired with a strong but simple bass beat, create a highly danceable groove.
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Producer and musician Ivona Eterović, known artistically as tonota, began her musical journey in the electronic rap duo Playground Hustle, after which she soon began working solo, expanding the genre boundaries of her musical expression. tonota’s unconventional approach to club electronic music, increasingly marked by experimentation and departure from club norms, results in an intriguing blend of ambient and bass music, at times influenced by traditional music. Among her performances, tonota highlights appearances at Illectricity Festival, ZEZ Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb, and SHIP Festival, as well as collaborations with Sara Renar, Ana Hušman, I. M. Klif, Vesna Pisarović, and Stephany Stefan. Since 2021, she has been working with spatial sound and has created her first spatial sound compositions. In recent years, Eterović has increasingly composed music for theatre and film, and in 2024 she enrolled in the Master’s program in Sound Design at the Department of Editing, Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
