What does Shelley’s Ode To A Skylark and falling down have to do with one another? Well, if you were a mischievous child of Barbados, more than one would realise.

Bruggadung is how we grew up describing someone or something falling; onomatopoeia at its best. I think of it as the action bubbles from all of the comic books I grew up reading escaping into the world.

I knew those action bubbles of sound well, growing up our speech was peppered with action sounds which described motion lyrically in a similar fashion: Plah-TOW! Buh-BOOM! Ker-ZAP! There’s a rhythm to motion. You didn’t just fall down in Barbados, you “went BRUGGADUNG!” And, if you were diagnosed as having synesthesia from an early age, bright bolts of colourful sound might be the way you see those motions and the world.

I called it my personal Lightshow of sound.

For those who were particularly mischievous and as prone to skylarking as my mother claimed me to be, you went bruggadung a lot.

The launch has been delayed due to technical difficulties (website issues being worked on as I type) but the BANG, BOOM, KERSPLAT of it all is waiting to be shared in synesthesia pleasing colour.

Harmonious madness and the sound of motion

S K Y L A R K E R Y & bruggadung! where my Canada meets my Barbados as told through fibre.

Oh, yeah! The Shelley connection; it’s more than just the name of his poem, Shelley was one of the first poets young me was enamoured of (Tennyson being my favourite poet to this day).

Comfort and Joy

jndc🤎

She went bruggadung!