What you described first looks like a pure sine wave, but that’s probably the most inorganic sound ever, perhaps because only a machine can produce a pure sine wave.
On the other hand, any bird or cricket sing, for example, sounds like a LOT of modulation, envelope, ring mod and pitch shifting is going on.
Yet, trying to make a bird sing in a Digitone, which seems to be the better equipped machine to synthesize this kind of sound, would be a very inorganic thing to do.
If we take the biology definition of alive, which I think is the core concept behind the organic definition used in the things commonly associated with (food and gardening), which goes:
any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing, excreting, breathing, moving, growing, reproducing, and responding to external stimuli
An organic sound would be a sound produced (metabolized) by a (sound) system than can respond to external stimuli (the performer or other machines) in a myriad of ways including constantly moving, growing and reproducing sounds.
Just overthinking this a little maybe, sorry for the long post.
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