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17-25 October 2026

Improvizer

A retro-type arcade machine to experiment with improvization

Hosted by Ana Neves

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

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Musical improvisation is one of the oldest technniques in the history of composition. Sometimes, it may be hard to understand, and so the Improvizer was created: a retro-style arcade machine that aims to encourage users to experiment with it and so learn about musical improvisation.

How does it work?

The Improvizer has different buttons for each music mode playing random notes, a joystick that controls the amount of notes being played and the speed at which they are being played and a special button that plays the set mode in order, to hear the notes without improvisation.

By

Ana Neves

Hosted by

Design Academy Eindhoven x Synthux.academy
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About Ana Neves

Musical improvisation is one of the oldest technniques in the history of composition. Sometimes, it may be hard to understand, and so the Improvizer was created.

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Designer Ana Souto Neves