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Dilli Improvisers Orchestra

India's first improvisers' orchestra. Synths, code, noise boxes, guitars and voices, composing together in real time.

Created and conceptualised by Baan G. Produced by W.I.P Labs.

A bass player in a white shirt mid-performance, with a drummer and keyboard player behind him
Dilli Improvisers Orchestra, W.I.P alt.FEST, Bengaluru

The Dilli Improvisers Orchestra (DIO) is India's first improvisers' orchestra. Synths, code, noise boxes, guitars and voices compose together in real time, and the music is shaped by listening and conduction instead of a score.

DIO was created and conceptualised by Baan G under the mentorship of Raymond MacDonald of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the University of Edinburgh. Vaibhav Batra was one of its founding members and later became its co-founder.

DIO has played GIO Fest 2025 in Glasgow, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi, CEPT University in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Dharamshala, and is available as a resident ensemble for festivals and campuses.

Form
Large improvising ensemble, acoustic and electronic
Method
Listening, conduction and graphic scores
Mentor
Raymond MacDonald, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
Also available as
A resident ensemble and workshop for festivals and campuses

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Photographs

The ensemble plays in a dark room as a performer with a megaphone stands silhouetted against swirling projections.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A drummer and a saxophonist playing on a dark stage
W.I.P alt.FEST, Bengaluru, December 2024
A conductor bends low toward the players, his shadow thrown huge across a projected image.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A performer in white lunges across the floor while his giant shadow stretches over the projection screen.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A keyboard player at a red keyboard under stage lights
W.I.P alt.FEST, Bengaluru, December 2024
A sitar player sits cross-legged on a rug in front of a pale projected screen.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
Players with a megaphone and electronics perform under bright psychedelic projections.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A bass player and an electronics player perform beneath a red and violet projected image.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A musician in a pink cap leans over electronic instruments under a single warm light.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A performer shouts into a megaphone with one hand raised against a black curtain.
W.I.P aDDa, New Delhi, June 2026
A musician seated behind a modular synthesiser covered in patch cables
PORTALS, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, November 2025
The ensemble playing at night in an open courtyard under a lattice canopy
Listening Otherwise, Ahmedabad, February 2026
A musician playing an upright bass in front of projected light
Dharamshala, October 2025
A musician working at a table of electronic instruments on a red rug
Dharamshala, October 2025
Musicians and listeners standing together in a warm-lit room
Dharamshala, October 2025

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