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

A talk Alan gave during MTNA conference in Spokane, WA. How did Alan come to connect the ideas of tensegrity and piano technique and what it all means to us.

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person Alan Fraser

video_library 11 Episodes

schedule 1 hour 1 minute 39 seconds

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Episode 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.

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Episode 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

access_time6 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 3

Compression and Tension Elements

So what we are looking for is good kind of muscular tonus not plain old bad kind of tension

access_time6 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 4

Weight Technique as Biotensegrity Entity

Arm weight isn't bad really. What's important is the way it's explained

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Episode 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

access_time6 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 6

Piano Action is Imitation of Tensegrity

Hammer and a key are elements in a kinematic chain

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Episode 7

Biotensegrity in Piano Technique

The hand as a mini body concept

access_time5 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 8

Hand Arch is the Voice of the Piano

Empowered structure = the piano's voice

access_time4 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 9

A few exercises for the functional hand

Alan is demonstrating a few important concepts

access_time3 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 10

The Empowerment Needs to be Truly Functional

In other words, no clenching, just pure power/function

access_time6 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 11

Are You Doing Everything You Could

to make your conception actually sound

access_time7 minutes 58 seconds