Kristin Stobbink “Daydream of music” 2023

Kristin Stobbink “Daydream of music” 2023

When Kristin Stobbink examines a series of findings about music, she arrives at the following conclusions: music stimulates neurons, creating better connections. The hairs in your ears respond differently, enhancing your ability to listen, learn, and process information more easily (Mark Mieras – science journalist). It is also stated that music stimulates emotional development, and that making music trains your memory. Furthermore, music, like smell, activates deeper memories; even when the brain is affected by dementia, music can still retrieve memories.

Have you ever wondered what role music plays in your life? When you’re in the car listening to the radio, do you sometimes skip a song? Not because it’s a bad song, but because it evokes a rush of nostalgia and emotion from a moment in the past. For Kristin Stobbink, music represents emotion in many forms: a bygone moment of loss, a grasp at de-stimulation, or a protective barrier of sound. The work “Daydream of Music” (2023) explores what music is and what it could be.

Kristin Stobbink created a 3D design for this work and printed it using PLA on a 3D printer. Words have been incorporated into this design: play, be, make, music, and now. On this hexagon is a metal music box with a hand-printed ‘music sheet,’ featuring wavy grids rising through a kind of fog, on which you could compose a small song yourself. For this print, Kristin Stobbink used natural oil on paper and employed a perforator to create a small piece of an almost completely forgotten lullaby.

Kristin Stobbink wonders, when she observes “Daydream of Music,” whether she will experience a shadow of the present in the future, in the now, and in the tones she listens to, and which emotion that moment will activate.

“Daydream of Music” 2023
3D print, transfer technique photocopy, paper.

Where to see: Musica Solidus – Gallery De Roos van Tudor, Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.
Group exhibition from April 1 to September 30, 2023.

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