Tune in on Friday, December 6th at 10:30am when Berkestir hosts Los Angeles-based vocalist, producer, and visual artist, Megan Mitchell aka Cruel Diagonals, for a live in-studio interview.
Since 2016, Mitchell has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Though classically trained as a vocalist and well-versed in jazz standards as a youth, Cruel Diagonals applies her brilliant voice to compositions and improvisations that are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises.
Rather, she optimizes her minimal gear setup with an instinctual adventurousness and an acute sense of the most chilling and moving atmospheres and timbres, favoring fluidity of tones over the grid-like modes of much electronic music.
Cruel Diagonals augments these elements with exquisite vocalizations, informed by ancient folk musical traditions, as well as contemporary classical ones, thereby forging a unique sonic palette.
Latest EP, Calcite, explores the simultaneity of an ancient mythos intertwined with an imagined future where life will no longer thrive on Earth. The album is a reverence for the geologically ancient past, conceived in and amongst the limestone and basalt formations of Southern California’s varied desert, coastal and chaparral ecosystems.
Cruel Diagonals plays Center For New Music in SF on December 5th.
