Biotensegrity: A New View Of Anatomy And Its Implications For Piano Technique

Episodes

1. 1 Retrain Your Brain The idea is for our skeleton to take over the work of the muscles. Also, a bit of background on Alan and his journey. 06:00
2. 2 The Model for the Human Body Spine isn't just a stack of bricks. Alan also explains how tensegrity ideas relate to our bodies 06:23
3. 3 Compression and Tension Elements So what we are looking for is good kind of muscular tonus not plain old bad kind of tension 06:24
4. 4 Weight Technique as Biotensegrity Entity Arm weight isn't bad really. What's important is the way it's explained 05:03
5. 5 Elastic Energy is Free Energy Alan shows videos of people walking from the beginning of the last century and draws parallels on how we move today 06:02
6. 6 Piano Action is Imitation of Tensegrity Hammer and a key are elements in a kinematic chain 03:03
7. 7 Biotensegrity in Piano Technique The hand as a mini body concept 05:40
8. 8 Hand Arch is the Voice of the Piano Empowered structure = the piano's voice 04:47
9. 9 A few exercises for the functional hand Alan is demonstrating a few important concepts 03:25
10. 10 The Empowerment Needs to be Truly Functional In other words, no clenching, just pure power/function 06:54
11. 11 Are You Doing Everything You Could to make your conception actually sound 07:58