Mexican artist turns guns into musical instruments









BANDAR RAYA MEXICO - Seorang pengukir terkenal, Pedro Reyes menghabiskan masa selama dua tahun untuk menghasilkan pelbagai jenis peralatan muzik dengan menggunakan komponen daripada 6,700 senjata api.
Menurut laporan agensi berita AP semalam, bekalan senjata api itu diperoleh daripada polis yang merampasnya.
Reyes juga memperoleh bekalan tersebut daripada pemiliknya yang menyerahkannya secara sukarela kepada polis.
Antara peralatan muzik yang dihasilkannya ialah xilofon, piano dan dram.
Dia juga mencipta peralatan muzik yang boleh mengeluarkan bunyi seperti gitar bes.


MEXICO CITY (AP) — The guns that have caused so many deaths in northern Mexico are now making music.
Mechanical hammers ping against ammunition magazines from assault rifles. Gun barrels cut to different lengths ring like marimbas. Pistol parts strike metal plates, like cymbals, to create rhythmic, syncopated sounds.
"It's important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons, as if a sort of exorcism was taking place," sculptor Pedro Reyes said in a description of his project emailed to The Associated Press.
When they were played, he said, "the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost."
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