| Sculptor Pedro Reyes Turns Mexico's Discarded Guns Into Music Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC | |
| go to original November 8, 2013 |
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Pedro Reyes creates second generation instruments from dismantled guns. With a team of musicians and new media studio, Cocolab, Reyes has made mechanized instruments from these one-time harmful weapons. (TheCreatorsProject)
Sculptor Pedro Reyes has done an unusual thing with guns discarded from Mexico’s ongoing violence: He’s turned them into musical instruments.
He’s cut gun barrels to different lengths to sound like marimbas, fashioned weapon stocks into bass guitars, made a piano out of rifles, a xylophone from gun parts and transformed pistol parts into cymbals.
If you don’t believe decommissioned gun parts could make sweet music, watch the eight-minute video above.
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