Christopher Franke
Sound
1953-04-06 · Berlin, Germany
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).
Filmography
Tangerine Dream: Ricochet
2019 · Movie
Julia
2013 · Movie
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011 · Movie
Reviving Ophelia
2010 · Movie
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark
2007 · Movie
What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole
2006 · Movie
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Movie
Berkeley
2005 · Movie
Green Street Hooligans
2005 · Movie
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
2004 · Movie
The Elizabeth Smart Story
2003 · Movie
Footsteps
2003 · Movie
A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster
2003 · Movie
Hunter: Back in Force
2003 · Movie
The Family
2003 · Series
Manhood
2003 · Movie
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
2002 · Movie
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight
2002 · Movie
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
2001 · Movie
Murder on the Orient Express
2001 · Movie
Jack the Dog
2001 · Movie
The Calling
2000 · Movie
Fortress 2
2000 · Movie
A Holiday Romance
1999 · Movie
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998 · Movie
Terror in the Mall
1998 · Movie
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1998 · Movie
Tarzan and the Lost City
1998 · Movie
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
1998 · Movie
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998 · Movie
Menno's Mind
1997 · Movie
The Devil's Child
1997 · Movie
The Inheritance
1997 · Movie
Tell Me No Secrets
1997 · Movie
Solo
1996 · Movie
Tenchi Muyo! In Love
1996 · Movie
Public Enemies
1996 · Movie
A Face to Die For
1996 · Movie
Requiem
1995 · Movie
Night of the Running Man
1995 · Movie
The Surgeon
1995 · Movie
The Yarn Princess
1994 · Movie
Babylon 5
1994 · Series
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993 · Movie
The Tommyknockers
1993 · Series
Universal Soldier
1992 · Movie
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1992 · Movie
She Woke Up
1992 · Movie
McBain
1991 · Movie
Driving Me Crazy
1991 · Movie
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
Shy People
1987 · Movie
Three O'Clock High
1987 · Movie
Near Dark
1987 · Movie
Canyon Dreams
1987 · Movie
The Park Is Mine
1986 · Movie
Legend
1985 · Movie
Red Heat
1985 · Movie
Vision Quest
1985 · Movie
Heartbreakers
1984 · Movie
Firestarter
1984 · Movie
Flashpoint
1984 · Movie
The Keep
1983 · Movie
Wavelength
1983 · Movie
Risky Business
1983 · Movie
The Soldier
1982 · Movie
Strange Behavior
1981 · Movie
Thief
1981 · Movie
Sorcerer
1977 · Movie
Tangerine Dream - Signals from the Schwäbischen Strasse
1976 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series