Sound of Noise 2012

A band of six anarchist drummers, spearheaded by the talented Sanna Persson, alongside their conductor Magnus, embark on a quirky journey to create music from everyday objects typically overlooked as potential instruments. With a clever fusion of ingenuity and humor, they meticulously design a concert featuring four whimsically named movements to be performed across the city, while dodging the relentless pursuit of Amadeus Warnebring, a tone-deaf policeman coming from an esteemed musical lineage, who harbors a strong disdain for any form of music.

Their escapades kick off in a surgery room, where they ingeniously utilize a famous TV reporter who is undergoing hemorrhoid surgery as part of their performance. Next, they set their sights on a bank, engaging in an unorthodox act where they seemingly hold the employees and clients hostage to creatively manipulate the environment for sound—feeding banknotes into a shredding machine to produce a unique bass sound. The adventure continues outside an opera house, where they rally the power of bulldozers to create rhythmic thuds against the ground near a fountain, culminating in a spectacular crescendo where they topple the fountain itself.

The finale of their artistic journey sees the group suspended from high-tension power lines, treating the cables as if they were violins, adding to their unconventional musicality. However, as the chase intensifies, Warnebring comes to a pivotal realization that the sound created by the anarchists escapes his hearing. This leads him to concoct a scheme to compel the drummers to turn the entire city into an instrument, strategically manipulating the power supply to achieve his goal. Despite his efforts, Persson experiences a transformation, discovering that the ambient melodies surrounding her have become vibrant, whereas Warnebring perceives nothing but silence. In a twist of fate, the film concludes with the anarchists banished from the city, performing as a lounge act, while Warnebring finds solace in a silent orchestral concert elsewhere, leaving their musical experiment forever destined to be a mere echo in his world.