​Standing amidst the coral-stone walls of the Barbados Museum at the Garrison, the visitor is accustomed to encountering physical remnants of the past.

Display cases house pre-Columbian ceramic fragments, colonial-era cartography, sugar machinery components, and delicate 19th-century garments.

Yet, for Kevin Farmer, the museum’s deputy director, preserving national identity requires capturing something far more elusive than physical relics: the living, breathing soundtrack of the Barbadian experience.