Turning Destructive Weapons into Creative Musical Instruments Using Ableton Live

We came across something rather cool over the weekend on (The Creators Project from September 2012) that provides the answer to a question not many of us ask: what happens to guns and other weapons that have been seized and taken off the streets?

In Ciudad Juarez (one of Mexico's most dangerous areas), artist, sculptor, designer, Pedro Reyes, was inspired by a trip to a recycling plant where he saw weapons being turned into raw materials again. But Reyes had an altogether more novel idea to transform weapons into life-enhancing musical instruments.

Reyes' multi-disciplined and talented team used Ableton Live, Max MSP and MIDI controllers to do just this. In the project