Now also on Bandcamp: http://adamsporka.bandcamp.com

FOR EMBER is an album with 18 chiptunes, written 2009–2019, produced and recorded using an authentic Atari 800XL.

CREDITS
Music composed, arranged, and produced by Adam Sporka
"Dare Master" composed by the Wasteland Wailers (Adam Sporka, Yondy)
"People of the Land" composed Jan Valta

EQUIPMENT
* Atari 800XL computer, serial #AT84159011
* ZOOM H1n
* REAPER + some VSTs

Buy or Stream

For Ember (Atari 800XL Music)

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

Five Fifty-Five

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

Atari Forever

A track from the soundtrack for the "Five Seasons" stage demo, featured at the Opening of the New FA/CTU Building, by V. Soukenka, J. Hybler, R. Berka, A. J. Sporka, Z. Travnicek, L. Herbolt; Institute of Intermedia. The music is by me.

New: check out the extended and enhanced AdamJ/ADON360 version here: http://soundcloud.com/adam_sporka/adamj-adon360-stack-em-up



Stack 'Em Up

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

An Atari 800XL featuring a bit of reggae and dubstep. About to perform it tonight at my gig at Festival Fantazie, CZ.

The Story of 3 Medium-sized Giraffes

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

For Ember (Chiptune Original)

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

Another Atari 800XL production, rendered in an emulator.

Awake

An attempt at expressionism through minimal composition. And no, I haven't been smoking anything. I don't do that. Try getting acquainted with the structure of a large grant application, then you'll understand :-)


My Live Used to Feel Like This

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)

While Kingdom Was Being Delivered (Atari 800XL)

Original by the Wasteland Wailers
Music by Adam Sporka
Additional music by Yondy

For Ember

Dare Master (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

An 80s beat on Atari 800XL. Just a few measures looped over and over, to test how the beat would sound and feel.

Monday Stereotypes

A little piece I was performing on my live gig on 17 April at FelCafé.

Things are Happening

Pacific Routine

Scarborough Fair

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.