Talk:Christopher Franke

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From the official site: The record label, initially an outlet for Franke's prolific studio albums and film and television music, has grown to include an eclectic mix of artists and genres. We have expanded our repertoire beyond the already established catalog of Soundtracks and Jazz artists by adding the affiliated labels Earthtone Records for World Music, New Age and Sonic Images Electronica for Ambient/Electronic Music.

You might make a claim about Earthtone (although it is not exclusively New Age, you should mention World Music too) however not for sonic

Earthtone should also be mentioned. Both Earthtone and Sonic Images release mostly New Age Music. Earthtone has more of an ethinic or world music feel to it while Sonic Images is more synthesized NA music. Dunk meister 22:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Christopher Franke is a new age musician and his page should be edited to reflect that. From his own Epic cd (compilation) released on his own Earthtone label:

Born in Berlin, Germany, Christopher Franke studied classical music and composition at the Berlin Conservatory. Besides developing a love for classical music, Franke also experimented in eclectic music with the electronic/new age band, Tangerine Dream. Between 1970 and 1988. Tangerine Dream enjoyed a very successful run, releasing over 36 albums and several motion picture soundtrack recordings.

After leaving Tangerine Dream in 1988 to explore new creative concepts and directions, Franke founded the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra in an effort to combine his signature "musical expressions" with an equal balance of orechestal, ethnic and electronic music. During this period, Franke released his first solo album, Pacific Coast Highway, followed by The London Concert in 1993. His passionate interest in nature and healing inspired Franke to release Enchanting Nature in 1996, which was met with worlwide acclaim and impressive sales. The response to Enchanting Nature paved the way for his biggest-selling solo effort to date, The Celestine Prophecy- A Musical Voyage. This majestic, yet sincere, musical companion to Kames Redfield's national best-selling book, The Celestine Prophecy, is considered by many to be one of the most creative new age albums ever produced in the genre. This was followed by a unique collaboration, Transformation Of Mind, which paired several portic readings by Deepak Chopra, along with nine delicate compositions by Franke.

While being recognized as a major force in new age music, Franke has also garnered a tremendous amount of attention for several film and television scores including Babylon 5 and Tarzan And The Lost City. Franke is currently busy at work with his many film and television projects as well as sequels to some of his most successful new age albums"

He makes new age music and soundtracks scores. User:Dunk meister 02:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Because the majority of C. Franke's solo works are either New Age albums or soundtracks it's fitting to list him as an "New Age and soundtrack score" composer". User:Dunk Meister 19:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Bad, Bad Article

Well, I guess you know you are in trouble when the discussion page is 3 times as long and contains 4 time more info that the actual "article". The scrap of info here reads like a high school music review magazine piece. This entry is a complete waste of time. A very typical wikipedia music entry -- juvenile, illiterate, biased, and written by fans regurgitating magazine articles and press info without any knowledge of the truth. Viva wikiality!

There is not a lot of info on the article, yes, but I'm not seeing where you get "juvenile" or "biased" or "without any knowledge of the truth" or "complete waste of time" from. The article DOES tell who Christopher Franke is and what he's done. You'll have to be more specific if you want someone else to fix things for you. Or you could fix things yourself... --Tropylium 13:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Luul

No mention of this work from 1981?

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Editing Christopher Franke Wikipedia page

{{adminhelp}} I am asking for help because I am actually working with the man himself, Christopher Franke, and we are trying to clean up this page with actual information that he knows to be true. The photo image that I posted yesterday was from him and his own computer.

Also, I would like to finally get the "needs additional citations for verification warning removed? NBDragonSlayer (talk) 17:43, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Strange question, what was the shiny trident-shaped appendage on top of Chris Franke's sequencer? (frequently seen in photographs such as those of the ENCORE-LIVE album). DannyJ.Caes (talk) 18:01, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

a letter from a neon sign, possibly a hotel, turned on its side. if I could remember where I'd read this....

duncanrmi (talk) 08:18, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

I always thought it was some sort of triple system of speakers, placed in the centre of the trio Froese-Franke-Baumann, on top of Franke's sequencer. DannyJ.Caes (talk) 22:47, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Edit requests

Chris is a friend of mine and I am assisting him with his Wikipedia page. It looks like someone recently changed the page and took away references. I would propose updating it to the information below. I would also ask that the filmography is removed as there are no sources. If there is a location to place this so I can work on adding more sources it would be appreciated greatly. Thank you for assistance. TimeIsMatter (talk) 22:00, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Christopher Franke, born 6 April, 1953, is best known as a German pioneer of electronic music and a Hollywood composer for film and television. He studied composition at Berlin Conservatory where his influences included Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

Franke was a member of the group Tangerine Dream from 1970 to 1987 where he was dubbed the "Sequencer King" for his use of analog sequencer on stage. His use of sequencers with the band is attributed to molding its fast hypnotic style, including on its Phaedra in 1973. This album paved the way for the classic style of the group and attributed to the Berlin school of sound.

After leaving Tangerine Dream, Franke performed a number of solo projects. He performed live in 1991 at the Astoria Theatre in London. Recorded live with Edgar Rothermich, who also produced and engineered most of his projects, it was released as a full-length album in 1993. In 1991, Franke opened a recording studio in West Hollywood and began composing the music for featured films that included Universal Soldier, Tarzan and the Lost City, and Night of the Running Man. The following year, he founded the record label Sonic Images to release soundtracks, Electronica, and World Music. He also released Pacific Coast Highway, his first solo album outside of Tangerine Dream.

For television, Franke has composed music for a number of television shows including for the Sci-Fi series Babylon 5 and Pacific Blue to name a few.

Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. GoldRomean (talk) 03:36, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

@TimeIsMatter, I suppose you can use your sandbox (User:TimeIsMatter/sandbox). Also, next time diffs (change X to Y) would be helpful (though in this case, not really). Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 03:37, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

@GoldRomean, Thank you. I copied the filmography to the sandbox and will work on it there. Should it be removed from the article for now because I don’t know yet what I can find references for.TimeIsMatter (talk) 18:09, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Go ahead, I agree :). GoldRomean (talk) 18:41, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

are you still busy tidying the 'filmography'? because the version that's in the article now is a disaster, in that the dates are wrong (sorcerer, 1997?), the formatting is all over the place & it's in no kind of order, nor are there links.

if you're working with chris, can you get him to expand on anything in this article or the other TD articles about his actual musicianship & technique? any other biographical data?

duncanrmi (talk) 08:22, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Heya, @Duncanrmi. I haven't been here since July and have basically no recollection of the specifics here; TimeIsMatter also hasn't edited for over six months. You're of course free to at any time clean up the filmography and add more details (supported by reliable sources, of course) if you wish though. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 19:02, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

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