Bana Haffar is a synthesist currently based in Montreal, Canada. She loves researching non-musical systems, sound design, sequencers of all kinds, and pocket microscopes. She has released music with Touch (UK), Vent (Turkey), and Make Noise records (US) and composed for Grammy-winning percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion. In 2014 she, together with Eric Cheslak, founded Modular on the Spot in Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of the Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon. Each month, together with Mike Harding of Touch, a new episode of Long Wave is conceptualized from a word, image, or text, and freely filled in with sound.