Time & Perspective Quote by Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay frames a scene change the way musicians actually experience it: not as a manifesto, but as a physical intervention. “Injected” is doing the heavy lifting here. It suggests something alien being introduced into a body that will either reject it or get rewired by it. That’s a telling verb for a downtown New York artist whose whole career has treated genre like a material you can splice, scrape, and contaminate. He’s not claiming to have invented a movement; he’s describing a moment when volume, aggression, and rock’s blunt force became a solvent inside a more rarefied art-music ecosystem.

The humility is strategic. “To some extent” and “we were involved” temper the brag, but they also signal credibility: real scene history is collective, contested, and remembered through gigs, not press releases. Still, the line slips in a clear thesis: loudness wasn’t just an aesthetic choice, it was a social wedge. Playing “loud” is a way of refusing the polite distance of certain avant-garde spaces, dragging the audience out of interpretive safety and into something closer to the club, the street, the collision.

Contextually, Lindsay is mapping how scenes mutate: not by consensus, but by friction between communities. “That scene” vs. “all those people” implies porous boundaries and a kind of coalition-building through shared bills. The subtext is that influence wasn’t theoretical; it was logistical and bodily - amps, rooms, ears, and the uncomfortable thrill of realizing the rules had changed.