Willem Tanke-Rolling Wrist Technique

Willem Tanke developed the rolling wrist technique: the wrist rolls over the keyboard in order to produce fluent clusters and suggest micro-tones. In this video, he takes a birdsong by Messiaen as a starting-point for improvisation. He demonstrated this in the Dutch national TV-program Free Sounds, in which he appeared with Mike Garson, on 13 May, 2007. In this video, Willem Tanke takes a birdsong by Messiaen as a starting-point for improvisation. The whole show, including interviews, can be seen on http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-7020072174860652233&hl=nl; improvisations only can be seen on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaw8xFRn98. Willem Tanke's performance of Olivier Messiaen's complete organ works on 8 CD's has been issued by Brilliant Classics in over 40 countries: http://www.willemtanke.com/discography.html

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[BeFrSc]

@juanmaMCMLXXXII You're quite right, my apologies.

[juanmaMCMLXXXII]

@BeFrSc This is not music by Messiaen, it's an improvisation using a bird-song notated by Messiaen.

[OrganNLou]

@GJmusique Modern music may be a different language, but don't just dismiss it because you don't understand it!

[GJmusique]

modern music, however harmonically and rhythmically very advanced... I can only say this is musical poverty in it's purest form. A toddler can do this...

[BeFrSc]

You have to have heard this type of music a lot to be able to like it, its a good example of modern classical Music, it is very weird.

[BeFrSc]

In order to understand the music, you have to listen to a lot of modern era classical music, particularly Messiaen, the composer.

[MonsieurOrgue]

3.09 - hmmm. Indeed!

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

I enjoyed the improvisation, and I know another pianist who utilizes similar technique named Mike Vargas. He refers to it as an amoeba hand. LOL!

[Alexandervelo]

you are very good, but the song isn't goot, it's very very crazy!!

[starlightmuze]

You are very talented but the music in my opinion was not even a little bit beautiful. Could you show the same technique in a more attractive way? I'd like to hear something familar.