Hi Yann!
Somewhere I read that the piano was the precursor for the electronic bits in Ker al Loch. That gave me the idea to mostly work with the piano tracks, to see what I could get from them. 
Anyway, its my first time remixing something, it was really fun! 

Greetings from Peru!

~

"Ker al Loch", originally by Yann Tiersen
Remix by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Ker al Loch Remix

"ñaupa"
Pieza improvisativa para piano en exterior nocturno.

"Muchos años atrás, visitando Sacsayhuamán, sentí una extraña presencia, como si allí hubiese tenido lugar una antigua guerra. Me imaginé rodeado de soldados, espíritus condenados a luchar por siempre, liderados por una deidad olvidada por el mundo. Un ser ancestral". 

Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

~

Ahora disponible en Spotify.
Now available on Spotify.

ñaupa

「鳥 ~ BAD DREAMS IN THE MIRROR LABYRINTH」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
No relation to, and not inspired by, the film starring Tippi Hedren.

Cover art: "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos" (1799) by Francisco de Goya. Edited by me.

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｢アドリア ~ RONDÓ FOR A SINGLE FATHER」

Concept music (and character theme) for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "L'Atelier du peintre. Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique et morale." (1855) by Gustave Courbet. Edited by me.

ADRIÀ

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｢ドリーミング ~ ONEIRIC OVERTURE」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna. Voice by chirimoyachris.

Cover art: "La Psyché" or "The Cheval-Glass"(1876) by Berthe Morisot. Edited by me.

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｢過去と現在の閃光 ~ MONTAGE OF MOTIVIC CONTINUITY」

Concept music for a graphic novel.
The movement are:
I. FIRST DAY OF THE LAST YEAR
II. YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH LUCAS
III. RETURN TO ETHELIA
IV. CLUB SANDWICH CLUB

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "La fin du déjeuner" (1879) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Edited by me.

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《바흐 바이러스 · PUMP YOUR INNER FIRE UP》

Concept remix for a scene of a graphic novel.

Music written by Johann Sebastian Bach, taken from "Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847" from "The Well-Tempered Clavier".
Inspired by the works of Wendy Carlos, Pierre Schaeffer and Diana Boncheva.
Arranged, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Johann Sebastian Bach" (1746) by Elias Gottlob Haussmann. Edited by me.

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Music composition and 
musical production by
Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Spoken word segments by
Tilda Swinton's AI clone.
Cover art by broadacre.
Now on Spotify. Thanks.

Ultramodularity

ultramodularity

｢三和音 ~ CANON IN MEMORIAM OF A MISSING SISTER」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Trois Jeunes Femmes" (1953) by Marie Laurencin. Edited by me.

TRIAD

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｢調整 ~ ADAGIO ADDOLORATO」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel. Part 1 of 4.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Die drei Lebensalter der Frau" (1905) by Gustav Klimt. Edited by me.

RECONCILE

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｢これを録音していますか？~ ALLEGRO INTENSO」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel. Part 2 of 4.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Selbstporträt Lavendel Dunkler Anzug Stehend" (1914) by Egon Schiele. Edited by me.

Are you recording this?

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｢実現 ~ CRESCENDO COSTANTE」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel. Part 3 of 4.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "La tour rouge" (1913) by Giorgio de Chihiro. Edited by me.

REALIZATION

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｢再戦して休む ~ DOLCE DENOUEMENT」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel. Part 4 of 4.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Femme se coiffant devant un miroir" (1877) by Edgar Degas. Edited by me.

Rematch & Respite

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Something went terribly wrong while making an arrangement of Boléro and... my weird self took over again. I hope this won't make Maurice roll in his grave so fast he could power an entire city. Although that would be a clean source of energy, but anyway, let's hope not.

Music composed by Maurice Ravel.
Fucking cut, burned, twisted and reassembled by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Voice over audio clips by André Asselin and Gaby Casadesus, taken from "Ravel" (dir. Larry Weinstein, 1987).

Ravélo de Ravel

｢死のダブ ~ HOLLOW HOOLIGANS」

Concept music for a scene of a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Excerpt of "Danse macabre" by Camille Saint-Saëns, performed and provided by the Michuru Yamane Necrophonic Orchestra.
Newscast voice samples (very generously) provided by Radio y Televisión Española.
Special thanks to Josué Iluvatar Bravo for his reggae research and recommendations.

Cover art: "El Jardín de las Delicias" (circa. 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch. Edited by me.

DUB MACABRE

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「1PMトーク番組 ~ EL SHOW DE MAURA」

Concept music for a graphic novel (and talk show, I guess).

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "La jaula de los pájaros" (1944) by Pablo Picasso. Edited by me.

1PM Talk Show

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Allá por el 2010, no recuerdo si en Cuzco o en Lima, se me ocurrió una sencilla melodía que grabé; pero, como muchas otras cosas de esos años, nunca pude olvidar.
Después de tanto tiempo, finalmente me animé a hacer algo con ella, y aquí la tienen. Se siente como como si mi yo de ahora le diera la mano a mi versión del pasado, a quién también se le puede escuchar, justo al final, tocando la guitarra que me acababan de regalar mis padres.

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Around 2010, not sure if I was in Cuzco or Lima, I came up with this simple melody and recorded it; but, like many things from that time, I was never able to forget it.
After so much time, I finally got around to do something with it, and here you have it. It feels as if my present self shaked hands with past me, whom you can also hear in this track at the very end, playing the guitar my parents got me.

y mañana...

｢からくり ~ "MECANO" RELOJES Y CHUCHERÍAS」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Клином красным бей белых" (1920) by El Lissitzky. Edited by me.

CLOCKERY

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｢義務 ~ ETHEL'S THEME」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Boreas" (1903) by John William Waterhouse. Edited by me.

OBLIGATION

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｢過去生 ~ ALLEGRETTO CITTA' POP」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "The Golden Stairs" (1880) by Edward Burne-Jones. Edited by me.

PAST LIVES

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I've been playing this piece lately, meaning to arrange it for an unusual orchestra, but I think I prefer it this way. It soothes my soul and that's what I've been needing these days.
Anyway, Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Whatever you celebrate, and a prosperous and productive 2023 :)

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"Gnossienne No. 1" from Trois Gnossiennes (1893).
Composed by Erik Satie.
Performed by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Cover picture by me.

Gnossienne No. 1

In the play "El cóndor pasa", Frank is a character born in an indigenous family, but with blonde hair like the foreigners that exploit him and his peers, a detail that deeply troubles him. In some way, he represents the people of my country, all of us descendants of colonizers and colonized. A shared history of suffering, that's what connect us, and yet, we keep finding ways to discriminate, segregate, despise, humiliate, ignore, kill, and hate on each other.

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Composición basada en el "Yaraví de Frank (Pobre alma prisionera)" perteneciente a la zarzuela "El cóndor pasa", del compositor peruano, Daniel Alomía Robles (1887-1940).

Variación sobre un tema de Daniel Alomía Robles

A birthday gift from me. Feel free to download and use it in whatever you are working on.
Hare Krishna.

†ॐ

12°7'37"S 77°2'17"W

｢逢い引き ~ ROSE-TINTED AFTERNOON」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Quarrelling" (1876) by James Tissot. Edited by me.

THE DATE

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｢鏡の部屋と火 ~ LENTO INTROSPETTIVO」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Pentecostés" (c. 1596) by El Greco. Edited by me.

MIRROR ROOM + THE FIRE

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｢平穏無事な学年でありますように ~ ANDANTE SCOLASTICO」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "La route de Saint Cyr au Louveciennes" (c. 1870) by Camille Pissarro. Edited by me.

WISHING FOR AN UNEVENTFUL SCHOOL YEAR

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｢彼女の象徴的な陛下の要求 ~ GRAVE CON FUOCO｣

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
No relation to, and not inspired by, certain album by The Rolling Stones.

Cover art: "A Vision of Fiammetta" (1878) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edited by me.

Her Symbolic Majesty's Request

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For the first time ever, there's a cyclone ravaging my country, so here's a prayer to the gods of old, for them to make it go away soon.

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Varuna, Susanoo, Llyr & Jaa

Andromeda

Obra para trío de rock, piano, orquesta de cuerdas, sintetizadores y pista de audio.

Música inspirada en el personaje creado por Stieg Larsson para su libro "Män som hatar kvinnor".

Mikael Blomkvist

Thomas O'Higgins Horna
Aspiring film composer.

†ॐ

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