NEW YORK.-As part of PERFORMA05, the first biennial of new visual art performance, White Box presents WHITE NOISE, an exhibition of sound and image installations by New York-based artists who straddle the fields of visual art, music, sound and poetry. The exhibition will utilize the entire exhibition space and will consists of four separate installations and performances by free103point9, Bruce McClure, and Jim O’Rourke with additional programming from the poet members of the Loudmouth Collective and Ugly Duckling Press.

On The Air: part of WHITE NOISE for PERFORMA05 - On The Air suggests an architecture, in-motion, for the reception of polyphonic radio signals in transmissionbased performance. Four FM transmitters distribute four distinct “channels” o f sound to portable radios suspended from clusters of helium- filled balloons throughout the gallery space. The radios are set in motion by fans causing the signals to at once surround and abandon the listener. For WHITE NOISE on the occasion of PERFORMA05 members of free103point9’s Transmission Artists have conceived of independent projects that inhabit and disrupt this sonic construction.

On The Air begins with a live Radio 4x4 event: an improvisational performance where four artists each perform into an individual transmitters; the audience’s location in tandem with the balloons’ determine the final mix of the collaboration. Audio ephemera from Radio 4x4 is installed throughout the project duration.
Each day will feature interventions from participating artists including 31 Down, Alexis Bhagat, Matt Bua, Damian Catera, The Dust Dive, Joshua Fried, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen, Radio Ruido, and Tom Roe.
FREE103POINT9 is a nonprofit media arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts by promoting artists who explore ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression. These investigations include practices in AM and FM radio, Citizen's Band, walkie-talkie, generative sound, and other broad and microcasting technologies utilizing the transmission spectrum. free103point9 programs include a performance/exhibition/transmission series, an online radio station, a distribution label, an education initiative, and most
recently an artist-in-residency program, and forthcoming study center and archive at free103point9 Wave Farm, located on 30 idyllic acres in upstate New York, 120 miles north of New York City. www.free103point9.org.