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Throughout his career, Craig has also been extremely active as a lecturer, giving seminars on musical electronics at colleges, music stores, and conventions in the USA, Canada, Europe, and South America. Many of his seminars are available on audio or video cassette through NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants. In the spring of 1989, Craig re-entered the music business as a solo performer with Forward Motion, a "desktop CD" written, recorded, and mixed in his home studio with the help of noted new age keyboardist Spencer Brewer. Released in late August 1989 on the Sona Gaia label (an affiliate of Narada records distributed by MCA), the project has garnered a tremendous amount of interest and positive reviews--even more for the music than for the innovative techniques used in recording that music. As Guitar Player magazine said in the lead review for their August 1989 issue, "an impressively organic sound...once you start listening to what's going on in this lush, multi-leveled music, you begin to hear that Anderton is truly onto something: You're drawn in by tasty guitar fills with strange, tantalizing textures and rhythm backing that doesn't chop or hack. Soothing yet fascinating." Rolling Stone called it "one of those rare instrumental electronic albums that is not mere New Age tapioca." Forward Motion has enjoyed airplay on stations across the country; it was also first selected for United Airlines' in-flight entertainment program during May and June 1990, and has been featured occasionally since then. An interesting side result of Forward Motion is that Ensoniq is now marketing the samples Craig developed for use on that project as part of their "Signature Series" of sound disks for the Ensoniq Performance Sampler. He has also designed sounds for Alesis, DigiTech, E-mu, Northstar, Optical Media, Peavey, Prosonus, and Yamaha, as well as a second Signature Series set for Ensoniq. Craig stayed on with Electronic Musician for a little over a year after Mix Publications was bought by Act III Communications (TV producer Norman Lear's media group). He resigned in mid-1990, choosing to instead write articles and books, produce and play on albums, consult to leading manufacturers, lecture on musical electronics, and pursue his musical interests. He is currently Consulting Editor for Guitar Player magazine, Technology Editor for EQ magazine, and a columnist for Keyboard magazine, Pro Audio magazine (Netherlands), and Performing Songwriter.
Bibliography
Electronic Projects for Musicians, Guitar Player Books/Music Sales, published 1975. Revised and expanded version published in 1981. Home Recording for Musicians, Guitar Player Books/Music Sales, published 1978. 4/8 Track Studio Logbook, Polyphony Publishing, published 1981. Craig Anderton's Contemporary Keyboard Articles (reprint), Polyphony Publishing, published 1981. Guitar Gadgets, Music Sales, published 1983. 7 Simple Steps to Buying a Word Processor, Warner Communications, published 1984. The Digital Delay Line Handbook, Music Sales, published 1985. Revised version published 1989. MIDI For Musicians, Music Sales, published 1986. The Electronic Musician's Dictionary, Music Sales, published 1988. The Complete Guide to the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8, Music Sales, published 1989. Power Sequencing with Master Tracks Pro/Pro 4, Music Sales, published 1990. Digital Project for Musicians, with Bob Moses and Greg Bartlett, published 1994. Multieffects for Musicians, Music Sales, published 1995. Do It Yourself Projects for Guitarists, Miller Freeman, published 1995.	Instructional Videos NAMM-On-Video, Winter 1984 (Notch Productions) NAMM-On-Video, Summer 1984 (Notch Productions) MIDI '87: An Update (NAMM) MIDI Basics (Alesis Publishing) Understanding the SR-16 Drum Machine (Alesis Publishing) Partial Discography/Tapes Mandrake Memorial, Mandrake Memorial, MGM records Medium, Mandrake Memorial, RCA records Puzzle, Mandrake Memorial, RCA records Leda, Linda Cohen, United Artists records Lake of Light, Linda Cohen, United Artists records Angel Alley, Linda Cohen, Tomato records (re-released on CD) "Love Me Like a Dinosaur," King Tip Toe, Metromedia Records "In Whose Eyes," Phil Flowers' United Family, Epic Records "All Cried Out," Walter Jackson, CBS Records Proteus I Demo Tape, for PAiA Electronics Roctave Divider Demo Tape, for PAiA Electronics Echo/Digital Recorder Demo Tape, for Imaginearing Audio ADM 4096 Delay Line Demo Tape, for DeltaLab Research IPS-33 Demo Tape, for DOD Electronics Soundsheet in the W issue of Op magazine Soundsheet in the March 1985 issue of Guitar Player magazine Soundsheet in the May 1985 issue of Keyboard magazine Emerald, Brewer/Rumbel/Tingstad, Narada/MCA Records Valley in the Clouds, David Arkenstone, Narada/Mystique Records Portraits, Spencer Brewer, Narada/MCA Records (as arranger) Forward Motion, Sona Gaia/MCA Records
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