ecka mordecai

Ecka Mordecai is an artist working across sonic, performative, and olfactory disciplines.

Her early studies were in Elizabethan and Renaissance music (Viola de Gamba, Rebec, Recorder) and Classical cello. She later attended art schools in Brighton and London, specialising in sound and performance art. Between 2010-2020 she worked primarily in improvisation, developing extended techniques for cello which took inspiration from the British free-improv movement and text scores of the 1960/70s Fluxus art movement. After 2020 her work became more compositional, exploring themes of intimacy and listening. She composed two solo albums for Cafe Oto’s in-house labels Takuroku (Critique + Prosper, 2020) and Otoroku (Promise & Illusion, 2022), a collection of soundscape-inspired perfumes for Aequill (Sound 01/02/03, 2022), and composed for Kamila Kuc’s experimental short film I Was There (2025).

She has a project with Valerio Tricoli (Mordecoli, Château Mordécoly, 2022) and is in a trio with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott (Circæa, The Bridge of Dreams, 2017). She works as a sound technician and educator at University of the Arts, London.