Indoor Blip: SoMa Pulsar-23

More impactful in large
SoMa extras:
SHAOS, WTF?, & OMG!
Nuclear Control Room green?
Lyra-8 overview

I joined the pre-order list for this analogue drum synthesiser in October... I reached the top of the list in May, and it arrived yesterday, (coincidentally) on the same day as an analogue drone synth (SoMa Lyra-8), although that is older and had no waiting list, although it took a while for a (nuclear control room?) green one to become available. Both were designed by Vlad Kreimer (founder of Sound Machines) and are hand assembled in both Russia and Poland. Vlad Kreimer describes the Lyra-8 as an organismic synthesiser, and the Pulsar-23 as an organismic drum machine... He calls them 'organismic' because they're designed to be not just responsive but reactive, with many subunits affecting each other to create complex feedback loops and unstable equilibria. Both are mostly analogue and sufficiently non-linear to be highly controllable (directable?) but not totally predictable and obedient...

I mostly got to know the Lyra-8 yesterday (at its most basic, it sounds like a haunted organ, with 8 individually tuned cross-talking voices with old-fashioned-sounding warbly oscillators, but it can get wild and percussive). I am still waiting for a couple of adapters to connect the Pulsar-23 to my system properly, although an initial short test was dramatic: it sounds like sentient industrial machinery installed in a resonant cave... It features 119 contact pins that can be connected with crocodile clip cables enabling cross modulation and feedback between modules and controls; two in my first extra are labelled "WTF?" and "OMG!", but most are less enigmatic.

Other angles/lighting here (or right from Lyra-8)