Guitarist extraordinaire brings his Governor trio. Mark Nagy performs with his interdisciplinary ensemble.
8p
Anthony Cox - bass
Krissy Bergmark - tabla
Luke Polipnick - guitar
9p
Mark Nagy’s Station Four
$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 Andrew Scott Young, 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. 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 who are from diverse groups highlighting everyday realities as experienced by members of underrepresented Chicago demographic groups.
In 2023, Nagy was awarded a DCASE grant to create “Dynamic Fabric: Chicago Intersections”, a Station Four multi-movement work for musicians and dancers celebrating the City‘s diverse neighborhoods significant historical events. Combining strictly notated musical scores and verbal cues to shape spontaneous group improvisations, all members of the Station Four ensemble are challenged to respond simultaneously to aural textures and visual stimuli. Station Four’s objective is to lead all participants -- artists and audiences alike -- to question preconceived notions and engage with new ideas.
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