Martin Galway (born 3 January 1966,[1] Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of chiptune video game music for the Commodore 64 sound chip, the SID soundchip, and for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. His works include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Comic Bakery and Wizball's scores, as well as the music used in the loader for the C64 version of Arkanoid.

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Martin Galway
Martin on vacation in Greece, 1985
Born	Martin Galway (1966-01-03) 3 January 1966 (age 56) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupation	Composer

Career

Galway was the first musician to get published with sampled sounds on the Commodore, with the theme for the Arkanoid conversion.[2] When asked about how he did it, he answered:[3]

I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone else's code ... OK, I admit it ... It was a drum synthesizer package called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to include samples in a piece of music. ... Never would I claim to have invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that they were wiggling the volume register, so I tried to make up my own drum sample sounds in realtime – which is the flatulence stuff that shipped in Arkanoid. ... After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune. The one that's in the shops is kind of a collage of farts & burps, don't you think?... Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by Game Over it got quite sophisticated.

Galway was appointed as Audio Director at Origin Systems in 1990. He worked at Digital Anvil from 1996.[4]

Galway's most recent post was working as Audio Director for Cloud Imperium Games on their upcoming PC game Star Citizen,[5] created by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander. Star Citizen was expected to release Q1 2015. Galway has since left this post.

Video game music

Notes

References

External links

• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Martin Galway discography at MusicBrainz
• Martin Galway's Music at CVGM
• Information about Martin Galway on Certain Affinity web page
• Legends of the C64 article on Martin Galway
• Remix64 Interview Sánchez, Claudio (10 July 2003)
• Remix64 Interview Carr, Neil (28 March 2001)

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