Croix Parler

[Croix]

I'd like to use this pace for miscellaneous matters that don't fit elsewhere

Thanks

Croix

[mmMekitty]

*     Buttered Bread

After tying buttered bread

To my back I found

Dozens of pigeons

Swarming around.

Friendly-like,

They soon ate the bread,

Leaving me to safely land

on my feet, on the ground.

- mmMekitty, Jan 1 2024

[Eagle Ray]

Bravo MK! 👏 

Can we please put that in our experimental film? In fact, not just the poem, but the real life scenario of the pigeons eating the buttered bread attached to your back?

This is going to be the greatest avant-garde film ever!

Hugs,

ER

[mmMekitty]

ER, I do like the way you think.

Alistair Croix, what do you think?

Yeah ... real artistic, ain't it?

Set to music ... Tom Jones, What's New Pussycat? maybe? Yes, yes, of-course, the entire scene will be looped so it will stretch to fill the entire length of the song... but I don't expect people will get bored.

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Eagle Ray]

I won’t get bored MK. I’ll be enthralled with every minute of it. We will have to make an accompanying video and send it to MTV.

 I just came up with one of my own. It’s called….

The Inebriated Kiwi

Slurp, slurp, slurp

Burp, burp, burp

Groan, grump, bump

Splat

Eagle Ray 1st January, or maybe the 2nd now, 2024.

It’s an exploration of the deep and meaningful inner world of the life of an inebriated kiwi.

I’m thinking of sending it to the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York where it can be played on a loop with a 3D video installation of inebriated kiwis filmed on our very own iceberg.

Hugs,

ER

[mmMekitty]

Wonderful, ER.

... Recorded from the inside out, I take it... you can put your poem to music, make a song & dance of it, though, I admit it won't be the inebriated kiwis who will be doing most of the dancing... well, if they know what we are up to with the internal microphones, they will indeed be dancing, to get away from us, so we'd better film that, just in case ... 

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Eagle Ray]

I believe there is something called a hydrophone MK that records sounds underwater. I imagine the inner sounds of a kiwi may be similar to the sounds beneath the surface in a swamp. I’m going to have to consult with some expert advice from Professor Porpoise on the best way of capturing the literal inner world of an inebriated kiwi with internal microphones. I will go to bed now and sleep on it (my idea that is, not a pile of inebriated kiwis).

Sleep well,

ER

[mmMekitty]

Now, really, is that mentally healthy thing to be thinking about when going to sleep?

... Or, come to think of it, anytime?

the way you describe the inner sounds of an inebriated kiwi as being like a swamp is so visceral, I love it!

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Eagle Ray]

MK, I was once went to a talk by a woman who does studies based on underwater sound in wetland ecosystems using a hydrophone. That is a true story, not a scenario I made up for the iceberg shenanigans! It was fascinating. She was doing science projects with school kids too listening to underwater soundscapes. If I could do my education all over again I think I’d really like something like that. The world is truly a fascinating place and there are always new things to discover, including the myriad sounds underwater (or for that matter inside a kiwi).

 I’m still trying to work out a non-invasive way of recording the inner sounds of a kiwi. Perhaps an amplification of a stethoscope? We could then create an avant-garde piece of music from it as the soundtrack to our experimental film. We can even sample the sounds and use a synthesiser to elongate and modify them. They could even provide a mysterious background ambience to Croix reciting our artistic poetry creations. It would be truly profound!

Hugs,

ER

[Croix]

Dear MK, ER and All~

I can hear rumblings of discontent (actually pipings of discontent) as the inebriated kiwis feel they have been slighted. They are quiet and not prone to gastric noises. They simply sip their beverages with their long beaks (allowing them to get to the very bottom of the bottle).

It is true occasionally there may be a sucking sound as their container runs dry, but that is only for a moment, then they waddle off to a quiet corner and snooze.

I must admit they do snore. Perhaps you could record these snores on a synthesizer and later use  different pitches to create a musical work of art. Kiwi Koncherto?

Croix

[mmMekitty]

Hello ER. I know about the hydrophone - wonderful innovations, that. I agree, some of the wonderful ways the natural world has been documented would have been a mesmerising marvel for me, too. If only, eh?

I do have vague & partial memories of seeing the docos from Jaques Cousteau presented way back when I was a kid, & possibly before I was born, maybe.

*

Alright, I'll go along with the stethoscope idea, although I thought internal micro-microphones Could have offered a higher fidelity sound to play around with.

Thanks for bringing your ethical concerns to my attention, even though I doubt the kiwis would have felt a thing ....  now there's an ethical debate to have.: Does it matter if the subject is aware of the experiment/procedure/outcome (i.e. how jolly good the production is when complete? ... & that we may not have paid them enough for their participation, even though they don't know they were participating  I'm not sure they will recognise themselves or each other on film, either by sight or sound.

Hugzies

mmMekitty