Hostile Architecture

Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand, purveyors of the avant-primitive, are pleased to present our second full length LP, released October 11, 2019 by Planned Obsolescence Recording & Novelty, Inc. We are a quartet of spontaneous players wielding electric guitar, trumpet, contrabass and drum set. The music we present here, while mostly improvised and recorded live, leans toward the “rock” end of the musical spectrum and includes healthy doses of what some may construe as “free jazz.”

This book presents mechanics miniaturization trends explored step by step, starting with the example of the miniaturization of a mechanical calculator. The ultra-miniaturization of mechanical machinery is now approaching the atomic scale. In this book, molecule-gears, trains of molecule-gears, and molecule motors are studied -one molecule at a time- on a solid surface, using scanning probe manipulation protocols and in solution as demonstrated in the European project "MEMO".