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Selected Short Subject: Turning Weapons Into Instruments | Pedro Reyes ‘Disarm’ (video)

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Featured Image: Disarm is a second generation of instruments built after Imagine (2012), also using the remnants of weapons that the Mexican army had collected and destroyed. The second series is made up of eight instruments that were created in collaboration with a team musicians and Cocolab, a media studio in Mexico City. These machines are mechanical musical instruments; they can be programmed and operated via computers, making them capable of performing music concerts with compositions prepared beforehand. CREDIT Pedro Reyes & SOURCE: http://www.pedroreyes.net/ (Fair Use)

From youtube uploaded by The Creators Project

Published on Sep 12, 2013

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.

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