brettworks

No expectations is an approach to workflow as open-ended and non-determined. The mindset celebrates continual play on your musical system’s edges: exploring tools, trying things out, noticing how the sounds feel and work on you rather than having preset, a priori ideas of how you should use them. Play a few chords, turn a few knobs, and notice yourself thinking and feeling as memory traces appear alongside the sounds. The traces are a reverie, an inattention within attention, a sign of something happening. No expectations is going with whatever musically interesting thing is presenting itself. Interesting sparked the reverie, and going with is finding ways to tune and amplify the sounds that got you here. In sum, be present: no expectations is discipline disguised as relaxed focus, a mindset that trusts your playing, exploring, noticing, and reverie to bring their music to today’s session.