They’re genetically closer to animals than to plants and are pretty amazing all round. The instruments I used for this are the Lyra 8 and the Bastl Softpop. I really love these synths as they’re unpredictable and consistently produce sonic surprises. The audio here was composed from edited and processed fragments of a few improvisations I did with them.
I’m reading Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris at the moment and came across the following description of the incomprehensible data the human researchers received from the ocean on the titular planet. On certain days it sums up the experience of working with these synths…
“Had it revealed its innermost workings to us? Who could tell? No two reactions to the stimuli were the same. Sometimes the instruments almost exploded under the violence of the impulses, sometimes there was total silence; it was impossible to obtain a repetition of any previously observed phenomenon”