A track made with Gradrigo, a new lighweight but powerful chiptune VST / Audio Middleware

Guess Who I Am (Made with Gradrigo)

Coded in Gradrigo, a new chiptune VST / synth / middleware. This song demonstrates how to code an entire music track in the Gradrigo programming language.

Gradrigo Demo Song (Made with Gradrigo)

HD version of this piece at https://adam.sporka.eu/gradrigo.html

Into the Open (Made with Gradrigo)

Octavia's Morning (original from 2012; 2021 Reupload)

(remastered)

... and did I mention it was supposed to be from space?

This tune on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgXZlFMtlA

Cover art is a modified version of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CGA_Partial_Mandelbrot_Set.png,
released by Thparkth to public domain via CC0 1.0

Ultrafast Galactic Bebop from Outer Space (soft squarewave + analog bass)

Thanks and greetings to my 555 followers! This track features 5/4 rhythm to celebrate the numeral '5' :)

Five Fifty-Five

Retrospections [XM module]

Recorded from a real Atari 800 XL.
Featured in http://www.retroist.com/2013/01/17/atari-forever-by-adam-sporka/

Buy or Stream

Atari Forever

For our upcoming performance at the Institute of Intermedia, CTU Prague.

[Sound Design] Angel Choir Gone Wrong

Book on music design in video games for game designers:
https://acaremi.com/music-design-book.html

Book Announcement https://acaremi.com/book.html

Featured on the show Triangle broadcast by Prun' 92 FM, Nantes, France, http://www.prun.net/download-podcast/id-10449-triangle-n121/ --- http://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/end-of-summer-8-bit rendered using a real Atari 800 XL

End of Summer

Update 10/26/17: We used this tune in our band to make our latest song called "Zebratown": https://soundcloud.com/wasteland_wailers/zebratown

A pseudo-16bit chiptune made using a VST plugin I just found called JuceOPLVSTi. A very nice emulation of the old Yamaha OPL2 chip for FM synthesis. (The drums are samples from Native Instruments' Battery.)

[Sketch] FM Étude (16bit Chiptune)

Get a 2016 version here: https://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/the-dutch-tune

For Ember (Chiptune Original)

https://github.com/adam-sporka/gradriguito

# "BEFORE BASICS"
# Gradriguito Demo Track by AdamJ/MovSD
# Not even Atari 2600 was this constrained

# Silence
A: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

# Tones
B: --______________________________________________------------------------------------------------
C: --______________________--------------------------______________________------------------------
D: ________________----------------________________----------------________________----------------
E: __________--------------____________------------____________------------____________------------
F: --______--------________--------________--------________--------________--------________--------
G: --____------______------______------______------______------______------______------______------
H: ____----____----____----____----____----____----____----____----____----____----____----____----
I: ___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---

# White noise
J: ???_???????_??????????--???????--???-?????????__???????????_??????????--?????-?????-????????????

# 16th notes
K: AAAAAAAAAA
L: BBBBBBBBBB
M: CCCCCCCCCC
N: DDDDDDDDDD
O: EEEEEEEEEE
P: FFFFFFFFFF
Q: GGGGGGGGGG
R: HHHHHHHHHH
S: IIIIIIIIII

# Snare drum
T: JDCBJJAAAA

# Patterns (two measures each)
U: LLLK TKMK LLLK TLMN LLML TLLK LLLK TLMT
V: LOPP TKLK PKKO TKLL LPQQ TKLK QKKO TKKT
W: LOPP TKLK PKKO TKLL QKPL TPOO QQQK TKLL
X: LRQQ TKKK PKKQ TKLL LRQQ TKPK PKQQ TTTT
Y: LRQQ TKKK PKKQ TKLL LRQQ TKPK QQQQ TKKK

# Music track
Z: UU VWVX U VWVY

Before Basics (Gradriguito Demo)

Blast from the past! This was one of my early attempts at the production of Feasts of Rattay, a piece from Kingdom Come: Deliverance (the first one). I was trying out various sample banks and if the middle part would work with flute.

Feasts of Rattay (Prototype Version, cca 2016)

My four hours at LHR's Terminal 3 after night on a plane.
UPDATE 1: Prolonged, edited, and mastered :-)
UPDATE 2: YouTube video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kMR4UlfI1c
UPDATE 3: New recording and master! (Uploaded 2019-03-16)

Heathrow Layover Music

Done solely using Superwave P8 VST. I love that synth!

Chiptune with a Twist (made with Superwave P8)

Update 09/10/17:
I fixed a few issues which remained in the previous master. I guess it's now more solid.

2016 remake of my "ballad of jet lag induction and recovery", written during November 2013 when I skipped couple days of daylight due to sleeping cycle gone out of sync. Tweaked considerably in this version :)

Original here: https://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/48-hours-without-daylight
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyyxYszFOAk

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48 Hours without Sunlight (2016 Remake)

March 22, 2019: The original version of this track was released in my album For Ember, http://kcdsoundtrack.com/for-ember.html

February 28, 2018: My friends from Przewalski Ponies made this awesome cover and video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWHtBVkYTs

Hilbert curve visualization of this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKEX7T5HF_8

An EDM remake of my earlier chiptune called For Ember, originally written for my live performance at HWCon 2015 in the Netherlands. Atari 800XL inside.

Buy it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Adam_Sporka_The_Dutch_Tune?id=Bzbqg2x45qwjr3ew6tpvqvxklvq

For Ember, a.k.a. The Dutch Tune (Electronica)

Another Atari 800XL production, rendered in an emulator.

Awake

Apple Museum Prague approached Josef Safarik, Ondra Rakusan, and myself to create a videomapping for the ceremonial museum opening in December 2015. My task was to write and produce the soundtrackfor it.

High-tech Fruit Repository (Apple Museum Prague Grand Opening)

An abridged version of the soundtrack for Creative Colours, an audio-visual piece by Josef Safařík and myself, premiered tonight via Linky, a LED-powered anisotropic display mounted on the façade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.

I used an alpha version of a new VST from Deadland Digital, called Plexigan. You can hear it at 0'41" (the chiptune lead) and at 1'36" and 2'35" (the ethereal electric organ sound).

https://twitter.com/plexigan

Creative Colours Soundtrack

The Button Game is a new video game for mobile devices by Two Bulbs Studio. I was commissioned to compose an adaptive music soundtrack for it. The game is super fun! Give it a try!

This mix shows off most of the music. The in-game music reflects the state of the game: Winning / Neutral / Losing. 

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.thebuttongame
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-button-pvp-puzzle-game/id1109903244

The Button Game Original Soundtrack

The Button Game OST

An extended synthwave medley of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance music. The original was for @warhorse_studios' video about the marvels of time traveling technology which transports you right back to AD 1403.

GET THE REAL KC:D SOUNDTRACK:
http://kcdsoundtrack.com

CREDITS:
Music by Jan Valta, https://twitter.com/valtajan
Additional music by Adam Sporka
Arranged and produced by Adam Sporka, https://twitter.com/adam_sporka

SPECIAL THANKS:
to Jiří Vašina, @elent-2-0, for the inspiration ("do it, or else!") to make this extended version and for being the first DJ to include it in their set.

WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14tTn01qEo

Get KC:D Soundtrack

Time Travel Works! (Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1980s Dance Medley)

The instrumental version of one of my contributions to Kingdom Come: Deliverance soundtrack, a project I had the honor to collaborate with Jan Valta.

Get the Kingdom Come: Deliverance OST on http://kcdsoundtrack.com

Než nám zbělaj hlavy (Till Our Heads Turn White)
Music by Adam Sporka
Original lyrics by Ondřej Malota
Performed by Bakchus
Produced by Adam Sporka
Mastered by Ondřej Urban

Než nám zbělaj hlavy (Instrumental) [Kingdom Come: Deliverance OST]

An instrumental version of one of my contributions to Kingdom Come: Deliverance soundtrack, a project I had the honor to collaborate on with Jan Valta.

Get the Kingdom Come: Deliverance OST on http://kcdsoundtrack.com

Poverty and Famine
Music by Adam Sporka
Original lyrics by Daniel Vávra
Performed by Bakchus
Produced by Adam Sporka
Mastered by Ondřej Urban

Poverty and Famine (Instrumental) [Kingdom Come: Deliverance OST]

For sweetie :-) An Atari 800XL production for Demobit 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Scored 3rd place in Streaming Music.

Check out the Synthwave version of this track: https://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/reading-light-synthwave

Reading Light

PEOPLE OF THE LAND
Music by Jan Valta
Atari 800XL chiptune cover by Adam Sporka

http://kcdsoundtrack.com

People Of The Land [Kingdom Come: Deliverance Theme] (Chiptune)

8bit is witchcraft, Praise Smooze! And check out my other Atari stuff: http://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/sets/ready-atari-800xl

This was a quick job in Raster Music Tracker, rendered using an Atari 800XL emulator, mastered in Reaper. Fun levels were increased since the last version of this song.

The track cover is an image from a cool collection of pixel ponies http://pixelatedponies.tumblr.com and is used with permission of its author who meanwhile has taken his blog offline. Too bad, I have no idea how to contact him now :(

Sweetie Bot Reggae

A dubstep/electro version of "Než nám zbělaj hlavy" from Kingdom Come: Deliverance by @WarhorseStudios.
Original music by Adam Sporka. Original lyrics by Ondrej Malota.
Get the game at https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com
Get the original version at http://kcdsoundtrack.com via Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, etc.

Get KC:D OST

Skalitztep (Než nám zbělaj hlavy Electronic Mix; song from Kingdom Come: Deliverance)

Check out the video for this track: https://youtu.be/aykQ7-zLHnw

House in C-Minor

Leos Kastner, an independent film director, approached Jan Valta and myself and asked us to compose music for his upcoming film "Zbojník" featuring a late 1200s story of Bohemian Robin Hood. Please support his crowdfunding campaign at https://www.startovac.cz/projekty/zbojnik/. Each of us wrote a few pieces of music for his campaign trailer. This track the combined material from my parts.

Zbojník Crowdfunding Trailer

NEW IN FEBRUARY 2025:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II OST on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3468550/Kingdom_Come_Deliverance_II_Soundtrack/

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NEW IN OCTOBER 2022:
Go get my book on music from the perspective of game design! https://acaremi.com/book.html

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My music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1252070608/playlist/32jupL9CHTXD42CbvwaFtD?si=fbFXcIcgTgWsZCyBf-BVdw

• Co-author of Kingdom Come: Deliverance I & II soundtrack (@warhorse_studios)
• Founding member of @wasteland_wailers

KEYWORDS
adaptive music, video games, music software, interactive audio, chiptune, procedural audio, syphonic music, medieval, songwriting, programming, research

BIOGRAPHY
Adam is a composer, producer, programmer, and researcher of music and interactive audio. He creates music for video games, multimedia installations and performances, as well as popular and symphonic music. His work involves acoustic instruments, synthesizers, sample banks, lots of programming, vintage computers, and their emulators.

Adam composed a part of the award-winning original soundtrack of a best selling role playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance in a collaboration with Jan Valta (@janvalta). The game has been developed by Warhorse Studios (@warhorse_studios).

The soundtrack is now available for streaming or purchase on major music distribution platforms, via http://kcdsoundtrack.com

He is a founding member of the Wasteland Wailers (@wasteland_wailers), an international swing and country band. The band is associated with the Overmare Studios, working on the music for fan-based game Ashes of Equestria.

He also collaborated Anneli Heed, Jakub Hybler, Jan Trojan, the Prague Spring Festival, and the Czech Technical University in Prague. He currently conducts a game audio course at Charles University.

CONTACT
My e-mail is adam.j.sporka at gmail dot com.

Adam Sporka

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