This pianist designed a card game to help musicians practice improvisation

Improv is intimidating.
Scott Hughes wants to make it more accessible to musicians. That’s why Hughes, 27, a pianist who does marketing for Analog Watch Co., built a card game to help musicians practice. It’s called Tonic.
He successfully crowdfunded it, raising more than $5,000 for the game. (Not surprising: The Analog Watch Co. crew are Kickstarter pros.)
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Here’s what Hughes, who lives in East Passyunk, wrote to us:

I believe improvisation is the #1 greatest thing a musician can do to improve him or herself as a player and as a person. The tragedy is that it’s not taught in standard music programs, and as a result most musicians are afraid of it. I studied music at UArts and Temple and saw a lot of the usual problems, so I want to provide an alternative.

Though Tonic is lo-fi, there has been a proliferation of music-tech projects in Philly lately. There’s even a new web audio meetup.