Ecka Mordecai
“Violet Pavane “
tx: 19th April, from 19:00
Live performance:
Saturday, 19th April – Doors 6pm. First performance 7pm sharp.
Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9SH
A re-imagining of the medieval pavane for ‘cello, harp, footsteps and the scent of violets
Ecka Mordecai is an artist working with sound, performance and scent. First trained in Elizabethan and Renaissance music (Viola de Gamba, Rebec, Recorder, cello) she later attended art schools in Brighton and London, specialising in sound and performance art.
Between 2010-2020 she was an avid improviser, developing extended techniques for cello which took inspiration from the British free-improv movement and text scores of the 1960/70s Fluxus art movement.
Since 2020 her work has become more compositional, exploring themes of intimacy as they relate to acts of 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).