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GenresElectronic music OriginBerlin, Germany NameChristopher Franke
Born6 April 1953 (age 62) (1953-04-06) InstrumentsDrums, keyboards, synthesizers RoleMusician · christopherfranke.com MoviesTangerine Dream: Live at Coventry Cathedral 1975 Music groupsTangerine Dream (1971 – 1987), Agitation Free (1967 – 1970) AlbumsThe London Concert, Klemania, Babylon 5: Sleeping in Light, Transformation of Mind, The Celestine Prophecy
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter
Christopher Franke - Inside The Morphing Space
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953, Berlin) 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 German musical Ludwig² (with Konstantin Wecker).
Solo discography
1991 - Pacific Coast Highway
1992 - Universal Soldier
1992 - London Concert
1993 - New Music for Films Vol. 1
1993 - The Tommyknockers
1993 - Klemania
1994 - Raven
1995 - Night of the Running Man
1995 - Babylon 5
1996 - Perry Rhodan – Pax Terra
1996 - The Celestine Prophecy
1996 - Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo! in Love (rereleased in 2002)
1996 - Enchanting Nature
1997 - Babylon 5, volume 2: Messages from Earth
1997 - Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1997 - Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1997 - Pacific Blue
1997 - Transformation of Mind
1997 - Babylon 5: River of Souls
1999 - Epic
2000 - Babylon 5: Episodic CDs – 24 CDs x 30 minutes per CD (1997–2000)