Station 4
Photograph: Tim Schmoll

Luca Cimarusti
Photograph: Michael Vallera

Luca Cimarusti is a Chicago-based musician who has spent over twenty years operating in experimental rock, punk, and heavy metal. His solo percussion practice focuses on repetition, resonance, and decay.

Station 4 is a Chicago ensemble employing texts and vocals, music and dance, to create a multi-sensory experience for its audience. Station 4 wraps its uniquely structured electro-acoustic improvisations around the spoken-word performance art of poet Kao Ra Zen augmented by dancers Tuli Bera, Heather Zimny, Karen Fisher-Doyle, and Mindy Meyers.

8:30 Luca Cimarusti

9:30 Mark Nagy’s Station 4

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

About the artists

Station 4 is a Chicago ensemble employing texts and vocals, music and dance, to create a multi-sensory experience for its audience. Each of Station Four’s musician-members has a long and varied professional performance career; they have collaborated together for 30 years.
Composer-saxophonist Mark Nagy conceived of and formed the band in 2022, initially inspired by the works of Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Comprising Nagy, guitarist Steve Doyle, modular synthesizer player Neil Jendon, and bassist clarinetist Emily Rach Beisel, Station 4 wraps its uniquely structured electro-acoustic improvisations around the spoken-word performance art of Kao Ra Zen, a noted poet and spoken word performer, augmented by interpretative dancers Tuli Bera, Heather Zimny, Karen Fisher-Doyle, and Mindy Meyers. In 2025 Jendon received a DCASE grant from the city of Chicago to create a work entitled “The Word and The City.” In this work, the ensemble interprets excerpts from literary works of Chicago authors highlighting everyday realities as experienced by members of underrepresented Chicago demographic groups.