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One handed alternating tremolo as shown in the clip is technically unorthodox. If you're going to use that a special instruction will be required. Percussionists don't distinguish between multiple stop tremolo and split voice tremolo. Shadowwolf3689's solution if written with G-A, G-B as stacked minims with strokes on top will be read the same way and considered better writing. Quiet playing on the timpani is pretty comfortable. You can find examples of that in Holst's Mars and the opening theme of Richard Strauss's Burleske.

Could always just do this which would be even easier and have pretty much the same acoustic effect

To answer the original question: No. Just no... None of that makes any sense. I wish we could remove some of these buzz words from our terminology... atonalism... tonalism... shades of gray, man! Like the Tokkemon said: Writing GOOD music that people like is hard. Who cares what style it's in. If you can make somebody like your music (meaning they were affected in some way that was positive), then you have succeeded in my book. End of story, for me anyway.