Known For
Sound
Born
Apr 06, 1953
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Credits
70 titles
Christopher Franke
Biography
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially, a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins. While he was not the first musician to use an analog sequencer, he was probably the first to turn it into a live performance instrument, thus laying the rhythmic foundation for classic Tangerine Dream pieces and indeed for the whole Berlin school sound. After his departure from the group, he founded the Sonic Images record label, a new-age music label called Earthtone, and the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, and produced a number of solo music works. After leaving Tangerine Dream, his only live concert was on 9 October 1991 at the Astoria Theatre in London. He performed on stage with Edgar Rothermich (a.k.a. Richard E. Roth) who is also his producer and engineer on all his solo projects and film music after 1990. Franke moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue film work. In 1995 he scored the AFI short Requiem. He may be best known for composing the music for the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as well as the score of the anime movie Tenchi Muyo! in Love and in 2005 the music for the German musical Ludwig² (with Konstantin Wecker).
Known For
Filmography
Tangerine Dream: Ricochet
Julia
Music
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
Original Music Composer
Reviving Ophelia
Music
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark
Original Music Composer
What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole
Music
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Himself
Berkeley
Original Music Composer
Green Street Hooligans
Original Music Composer
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
Original Music Composer
The Elizabeth Smart Story
Music
Footsteps
Original Music Composer
A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster
Original Music Composer
Hunter: Back in Force
Original Music Composer
The Family
Music
Manhood
Original Music Composer
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Original Music Composer
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight
Original Music Composer
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Music
Murder on the Orient Express
Original Music Composer
Jack the Dog
Original Music Composer
The Calling
Original Music Composer
Fortress 2
Original Music Composer
A Holiday Romance
Original Music Composer
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
Original Music Composer
Terror in the Mall
Original Music Composer
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Original Music Composer
Tarzan and the Lost City
Original Music Composer
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Original Music Composer
Menno's Mind
Original Music Composer
The Devil's Child
Original Music Composer
The Inheritance
Original Music Composer
Tell Me No Secrets
Original Music Composer
Solo
Original Music Composer
Tenchi Muyo! In Love
Original Music Composer
Public Enemies
Original Music Composer
A Face to Die For
Original Music Composer
Requiem
Music
Night of the Running Man
Original Music Composer
The Surgeon
Original Music Composer
The Yarn Princess
Original Music Composer
Babylon 5
Music
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Original Music Composer
The Tommyknockers
Music
Universal Soldier
Music
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
Original Music Composer
She Woke Up
Original Music Composer
McBain
Original Music Composer
Driving Me Crazy
Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt
Music