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Christopher Franke

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Christopher Franke
Born in Berlin, Germany in April, 1953, Christopher Franke studied classical music and composition at the Berlin Conservatory. At that time he was influenced by such composers as Krzysztof Penderecki, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and was actively involved in rock and jazz music.

Together with his composition teacher, Franke set up a sound studio within a Berlin music school. The experimental excursions resulted in a project that evolved into the Berlin School of Electronic Music. It was there that Christopher Franke met Edgar Froese and became a member of the group Tangerine Dream. He pioneered the fascinating soundscape of the Moog Synthesizer and the Moog Sequencer creating driving, hypnotic rhythm patterns. One year later, Franke brought Peter Baumann into the band. Between 1970 and 1988, Tangerine Dream released 37 albums and composed scores for more than 30 feature films, including Legend (1985), Sorcerer (1977), Thief (1981), Firestarter (1984), Risky Business (1983) and Near Dark (1987).

After leaving the Group in 1988, he released his first solo album, "Pacific Coast Highway" in 1991. That same year he founded the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra and opened a new, much needed recording studio in Hollywood as he became a successful film music composer on his own. In 1993, Christopher founded the record label, "Sonic Images Records", and subsequently released numerous studio recordings and soundtracks. He has composed the music for feature films, such as the blockbuster Universal Soldier (1992), as well as for television, including the cult Sci-Fi series Babylon 5 (1993). 1997 witnessed the release of Franke's critically acclaimed "The Celestine Prophecy - A Musical Voyage", a companion CD to James Redfield's best selling book "The Celestine Prophecy".

More recently, Franke completed the score to the epic "Tarzan and the Lost City", the influential documentary What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004), the hit-movie Green Street Hooligans (2005) starring Elijah Wood and the new Sci-Fi movie Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007).
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Known for

Universal Soldier (1992)
Universal Soldier
6.1
  • Composer
  • 1992
Fionn Whitehead in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
7.1
  • Soundtrack("Phaedra", "Love on a Real Train")
  • 2018
Enter the Void (2009)
Enter the Void
7.2
  • Soundtrack("Incent")
  • 2009
Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline in The Squid and the Whale (2005)
The Squid and the Whale
7.3
  • Soundtrack("Love on a Real Train")
  • 2005

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  • The Amazing Race (2001)
    The Amazing Race
  • Julia (2013)
    Julia
  • Rebecca Williams, Nick Thurston, and Carleigh Beverly in Reviving Ophelia (2010)
    Reviving Ophelia
  • Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010)
    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
  • High School Confidential (2008)
    High School Confidential
  • Julie Chen Moonves in Big Brother (2000)
    Big Brother
  • Jo Frost in Supernanny (2004)
    Supernanny
  • Faces of Earth (2007)
    Faces of Earth
    • (music)
  • Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, and Peter Woodward in Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
    Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
  • Confrontation
  • What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)
    What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
  • Evgenia
  • Berkeley (2005)
    Berkeley
  • Firefighter (2005)
    Firefighter
  • Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, and Geoff Bell in Green Street Hooligans (2005)
    Green Street Hooligans

Music Department

  • Mammals Vs. Dinos (2006)
    Mammals Vs. Dinos
    • (uncredited)
  • Alfred Molina, Leslie Caron, and Peter Strauss in Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
    Murder on the Orient Express
  • Bruce Boxleitner, Mira Furlan, and Andreas Katsulas in Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
    Babylon 5: In the Beginning
  • Planetary Traveler (1997)
    Planetary Traveler
  • Menno's Mind (1997)
    Menno's Mind
  • The Surgeon (1995)
    The Surgeon
  • Carl Lumbly in M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
    M.A.N.T.I.S.
  • Bruce Boxleitner, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Jerry Doyle, and Andreas Katsulas in Babylon 5 (1993)
    Babylon 5
  • The Tommyknockers (1993)
    The Tommyknockers
  • Eye of the Storm (1991)
    Eye of the Storm
  • James Caan in Thief (1981)
    Thief
    • (uncredited)

Producer

  • Wacker's Genioplast ®: Performance Additive

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    • April 6, 1953
    • Berlin, Germany
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    Babylon 5 (soundtrack) Sonic Images
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    Member of the German band Tangerine Dream from 1970 to 1988.

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