Music - Audio
Place like now (2024)
Lo-fi, fuzzy jazz piano instrumental from my 2016 album version.
Insomnia (2023)
Surf rock 'n’ roll
Happy Birthday in a minor key (2023)
Sad / thoughtful guitar
Vocal version
Instrumental
Asians Have Feelings Too (2021)
Sweet melodies, subversive lyrics, feel-good dance breaks and an epic Freddie Mercury piano molten centre.The emotions of multiple marginalisation of sinophobia, LGBTIQA+phobia and other isolating experiences, combined with luminous textures, irregular meter and cheeky fills takes you on a kaleidoscopic, decolonising musical adventure!
“Asians have feelings too song is a BOP!”
(BESEA Teacher on Live performance of Asians Have Feelings Too)
"While The Mollusc Dimension tackles some emotions that can feel dark and frustrating (for those of us who might identify with the subject matter), the song itself is light, bouncy, playful, and at times softly soulful -- much like the wonderful talent behind it! A joyous romp and a sweet self-love ballad mixed into one."
Kelsey Yuhara (Artist, Performer, Director, Improviser)
“Totally speaks to us ESEA community - thank you for the representation.”
George Ma (Chinese Chippy Girl - British-born Chinese Podcaster)
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Three Cups of Tea (2021)
The Mollusc Dimension shares a glimpse of QTPOC lockdown life via these vignettes combining cut-up kitchen and home sounds, spoken word performance and improvised piano music.
A 3-part lockdown commission exploring mental health, race, gender, loss and lockdown. Zine part Video part Find out more about the project here.
Commissioned by USURP GALLERY, 2020.
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Welcome to The Mollusc Dimension (2019)
Imagine being the ONLY queer, trans-masc, East-Asian, UK born & raised squid in the village. A misfit, female-socialised British Chinese kid in the 1980s, he trained in the tantalising code-switch art of Classical piano, scooped medals and wowed listeners. His parents moved here from British-colonised Hong Kong in the seventies and they didn't want him to be an artist, queer or trans-masculine. But he kept falling out of his closets. [READ MORE….]
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Quiet Queers Qlub - Improv Comedy Podcast (2019)
Just before 2019, The Mollusc Dimension co-founded the UK’s first QTPOC & non binary centring improv comedy podcast, the Quiet Queers Qlub, using versatile improvisation skills to comic effect.
Dream Improvisions (2016) 7-track EP
Solo Piano Free Improvisation Project.
Ranging from the magical lyricism to awkward comedy.
The Flying Coffee Machine (2016) 5-track Ep
By The Mollusc Dimension’s first band, Squid & The Krakens.
Rambunctious, infectiously lively plus Tchaikovsky meets intersectional feminist punk!
Who dropped the octopus behind the piano (2017 re-released as a single in 2023)
All audio and images by The Mollusc Dimension (except “Quiet Queers Qlub” logo by Shaven Raven Designs.