"You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself"
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Calling it a "battle" is the oldest trick in the live-music book: dress art up in the language of conflict so it feels urgent, risky, worth showing up for. Eric San punctures that hype with a calm reversal. Yes, people say "war" - especially in scenes built on competitive skill, volume, and bravado - but he insists the core engine isn’t domination. It’s expression, and the point is the act itself.
The move is subtle: he doesn’t deny the aggressive aesthetics that often surround electronic performance culture (the harsh sounds, the confrontational energy, the territorial fandom). He reframes them as theater. "Whatever" does a lot of work here, shrugging off the macho vocabulary without moralizing. It’s not an apology for intensity; it’s a claim about intention. Violence becomes metaphor, a marketing skin that audiences and media love to slap on anything loud, fast, or technically flexed.
Subtext: the scene’s competitiveness is real, but it’s a social ritual, not a literal appetite for harm. In a world that regularly confuses edge with ethics, San draws a boundary between sound and aggression, between catharsis and cruelty. "Celebrating that in itself" lands as a defense of art’s intrinsic value - not as therapy, not as spectacle, not as a scoreboard. Just a permission slip to make noise, mean it, and let the meaning be the making.
The move is subtle: he doesn’t deny the aggressive aesthetics that often surround electronic performance culture (the harsh sounds, the confrontational energy, the territorial fandom). He reframes them as theater. "Whatever" does a lot of work here, shrugging off the macho vocabulary without moralizing. It’s not an apology for intensity; it’s a claim about intention. Violence becomes metaphor, a marketing skin that audiences and media love to slap on anything loud, fast, or technically flexed.
Subtext: the scene’s competitiveness is real, but it’s a social ritual, not a literal appetite for harm. In a world that regularly confuses edge with ethics, San draws a boundary between sound and aggression, between catharsis and cruelty. "Celebrating that in itself" lands as a defense of art’s intrinsic value - not as therapy, not as spectacle, not as a scoreboard. Just a permission slip to make noise, mean it, and let the meaning be the making.
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