Patch Notes: Raymond Haddad

Raymond Haddad is a Palestinian composer and self-taught bass player with a background in jazz, classical and the Arabic music tradtion. In 2018, Haddad reached a turning point in his career when he built his first modular system, and began to integrate schools of East and West Coast synthesis into his expansive musical practice. “Sometimes the modular runs for two days with sweet analog sounds, generative melodies and rhythms, and I’m just staring at the walls of the studio fascinated by the sounds and music asking myself how to put this into a track,” Haddad says of his practice. “Getting to electronic music from a long heritage of jazz and classical, western and Arabic music productions for over 25 years is a breakthrough, yet it feels so right when your soul feels it’s a child again.” In this episodes of Patch Notes, Haddad creates a generative composition titled Dissolve, which combines his modular synthesiser with rhythm from Elekton’s Octatrack and pad sounds from Ableton Live. “In this patch I mixe