Mexican artist turns guns to musical

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Mexico City--is now making guns that caused many deaths in Northern Mexico.

Ping the mechanical hammers against magazines of ammunition from assault rifles. Gun barrel cut to different lengths, such as marimbas ring. Blow gun parts metal plates, such as cymbals, creating rhythmic, sinkobatid votes.

"It is important to consider taking many lives, as if some kind of exorcism was conducted," sculptor "Pedro Reyes" said in a description of the project through e-mail, "associated press".

When they played, said, "the demons held the music, as well as a Requiem for the loss of life".

Reyes said the project titled "weapons", he was able to choose his instruments of about 6700 guns that were seized or turned into army and police in Ciudad Juarez, a city of about 1.3 million people on average about 10 murders a day at the height of the violence. In Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, 2010. Juarez was killed about 230 per 100,000 inhabitants. The national rate for the United States this year was 4.8.

"The dramatic thing is that this is just the tip of the iceberg of all the weapons that are seized every day and that the army must be destroyed," Reyes said in an interview that showed some tools computer-controlled town that played a sort of industrial pollutants tinged marimba.

Reyes already was known as 2008 project called "por Palas bistolas," or "pistols to shovels," melting 1527 to make the same number of shovels to plant as many trees.

New project started last year with a phone call offering him another opportunity to work with guns seized.

"Typically, they are buried or destroyed, but someone said, who works for the Government, ' would you be interested in making a statue with the metal? '" he recalled.

The cost of drug cartel violence has claimed more than 70,000 in Mexico over the past six years, arms trafficking, which was a sore point; many of the weapons used by the cartels are smuggled across the border from the United States.

In 2012, President Felipe Calderon opened in Ciudad Juarez panel facing Texas, contained the words "no more weapons" in a piece welded from decommissioned rifles.

Reyes also hopes to take his message, with an exhibition of musical instruments at the exhibition in London in March, and then in the United States.

Reyes said "peaceful intentions, to create the kind of global awareness about arms trafficking from this project."

Violence has become a subject in Mexican art in recent years. One artist works from Sinaloa, Teresa margolis, experiencing violence with artifacts collected from the crime scene, such as pieces of glass or cloth touched mud and blood.

Rice stressed that the work "is not just a protest, but a suggestion."

Reyes said "it happened to me to make musical instruments, because the music is unlike". "This transformation we see guns, what they would like to see in society".

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