Small Projects is proud to welcome you all back with a triple-header, featuring performances by Θ, Per Martinsen and an exhibition of recent work by André Aas.

Due to the Covid-19, we will only allow a maximum of 50 guests during the event, and we require that all the guests bring their own face masks, while Small Projects will provide disposable gloves and hand sanitizer.

We will not be serving any food or drinks, but we welcome you to bring your own drinks with you. We will close the gallery at 11pm. Please take note of all the requirements in order for us to have an enjoyable and safe experience. Welcome!

Deprived. an audio performance by Θ

A dark ambient noise drone performance to soundtrack our dystopia.

Deprivation intensified.

Walls closing in.

Deprivation intensifies the perception of the few available stimuli. The less the stimulation, the stronger the impact of the available sensory triggers. With masks we loose smell and taste, with gloves we loose touch and in darkness all that is left is sound. Focus on richness in simplicity.

Θ (Theta) employs metaphysics and biometrics to stimulate mental and physical reactions. The result is close to dark ambient with a noisy texture that flirts between dystopian crust punk and existential bl(e)ack metal. Θ uses any type of media that can lead to sound experiments that, even though thoroughly planned, allow the planned system to express probabilistic individuality. Θ develops sounds that are inspired by nature and technology, but mostly by the interaction and thresholds between the two and the dystopias this interaction can lead to. Θ has broad musical origins from mouldy hardcore punk to early experimentalists such as Xenakis and everything worthy in between. Θ originates from the city Drama, Northern Greece and is located in Tromsø, Northern Norway.

Themis has been releasing music as Θ since 2013 and is also half of the duos metatag and ISØLATIØN. Θ has been collaborating with many artists on: split releases, horror film soundtracks, background music for podcasts and has contributed with soundscapes and atmospherics for heavy and dark punk albums. Θ is continuously working on new material and in parallel works on collaborations with various artists. Contact Themis at xtxax@yahoo.co.uk, @8theta on IG or via thetasounds.org

*Picture taken by Ivonne Wilken. Background art is "Bring Joy", by Rashid Johnson at Astrup Fearnley museum in Oslo, Norway.

WAVE ∞ FORM with Per Martinsen

Cold, industrial noises interject cold stark planes, with a thinly veiled layer of frost entombing the fragile sounds in their own resonances. Like a lifeless radar station starts spreading a dormant signal after years of inactivity, Per Martinsen’s latest project WAVE∞FORM slowly gestates into life. A wholly ambient project, WAVE∞FORM takes from Per Martinsen’s more reserved catalogue of music, away from his main Mental Overdrive moniker as he leaves the dance floor for  the chill out room.

WAVE∞FORM is just the latest in a long line of works that suggest Martinsen is a restless artist, who loves bucking trends and is incredibly versatile in any electronic music language. In this new ambient dialect, he has found a way to combine that experimental aptitude from the nineties with the idea of music as environment, all the while never losing touch with his artistic voice. (Mischa Mathys for The Formant)

The Great Reset by André Aas

André Enger Aas (b. 1987, Stavern, Norway) is an artist based in Tromsø. Aas received a bachelors degree from The Academy of Contemporary Art in Trondheim and a Masters degree from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art in 2015. Since 2017 he has been situated and working at Loftet Atelierfellesskap at Tromsø Kunstforening.

He works within installation, image and sculpture. Aas works with scavenged, stolen and found material, focusing on these materials already inherent representational value. He mixes the familiar with the abstract to build a visual narrative that tells tales which distorts history with fiction, science with spirituality and touches upon universal sensibilities such as loss, love, identity and our past. Aas’s figurative sculptures and installations are composed of a variety of materials and elements, resembling collages of everyday objects and artifacts.