'Sound of Noise'

"Music For One Apartment and Six Drummers" was a great conceptual art piece in which six rather serious looking Swedes invade a couple's flat and begin to play clockwork rhythms out of everything in it: blenders, pot-lids, switches, toothbrushes, razors, floss, you name it. This was a great, fun sketch at 10 minutes (and you can still find it on Vimeo or YouTube), but they've now stretched the idea out to feature-length, where it more than out-stays its welcome.

"Sound of Noise" follows a group of anarchist drummers who invade public spaces to perform guerilla-style pieces, and the music-hating cop who pursues them. It's a conceit typical of conceptual art that they imagine themselves so subversive — Wanted by the police! Hated by classical musicians! — for merely playing music on found objects, something that has long since taken to the mainstream by The Blue Man group et al.

A bigger problem is the fact that these musical pranks aren't performed live. Invading an operating room and making music using all the equipment would be impressive ... but not when it's clearly dubbed, having been pristinely cut-and-pasted in some digital software, and even less so when the results sound like pretty average glitchy techno music.