Description of the SOMA Laboratory PULSAR-23 1984 Edition organismic drum machine    THE MIDIUM® CURATOR'S NOTE: SOMA Laboratory's exclusive collaboration with The Midium®, genesis of the SOMA Laboratory PULSAR-23 1984 Edition CAMI: The concept behind the 1984 Edition took many months of planning and development to complete, and now, the result has arrived: the limited edition SOMA Laboratory PULSAR-23 1984 Edition.   The Midium® and SOMA Laboratory US Division collaborated to create a limited run of PULSAR-23s featuring an unpainted steel chassis with black trim and red lights that would harken to a dystopian time.  The idea for the "1984" edition, it was decided, would also come with a typewritten certificate of authenticity inspired by a time before computers were affordable... a time when expression is not free... and when analog instruments were beginning to disappear.  As it was, the folks at SOMA Laboratory, which include the first US-based engineer to partner with SOMA Laboratory on such a project, Noah Jolly, and leader of the SOMA Laboratory US Division Kevin Flynn, had already been testing experimental circuits for the PULSAR-23 organismic drum machine for some time.   Part of the reasoning for both teams bringing these ideas together had to do with SOMA Laboratory's experimental circuits.  They present new functions while being inspired by the Formanta Polivoks: a classic analog synthesizer renowned for its tone that was in production in 1984.  The Polivoks, in fact, was born in 1982 and lived on through the waning years of the Soviet Union, until 1990.  So, the SOMA Laboratory PULSAR-23 1984 Edition marries new designs developed by Jolly and Flynn with inspiratio