Mystic Elevator is the improvised duo project of Abigail Whitman (voice) and Jack Herscowitz (electronics). Based in Los Angeles, they perform in a variety of spaces throughout the city, adapting their sound to respond to their environment and each other. Abigail engages extended means of sound production with the voice, using techniques such as screaming, word deconstruction, gibberish, and haunting melodic lines. Jack carefully distorts these sounds through live digital sampling, reconstructing and recontextualizing the voice and isolating minute details through loops.
Their debut album, It Burns With a Sweetness, was released in Spring 2025 via Harmonic Ooze Records (Tucson).