Kristin Stobbink “Daydream of music” 2023

Kristin Stobbink “Daydream of music” 2023

When Kristin Stobbink takes a look at a series of findings about music, she comes to the following. Music stimulates neurons and this creates better connections. The hairs in your ears will stand differently and this will make you listen better and you will be able to learn and process information more easily (Mark Mieras – science journalist). It is also stated that music stimulates your emotional development, making music trains your memory. And music, just like smell, activates deeper memories, that even when the brain is affected by dementia, music will still retrieve memories.

Have you ever wondered what role music plays in your life? And when you’re in the car listening to the radio you sometimes put a song away. 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 is 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) is about what music is and could be.

Kristin Stobbink made a 3D design for this work and printed it with 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’. With 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 a perforator to perforate a small piece of an almost completely forgotten lullaby.

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

“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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