My portfolio includes scoring, arrangement and composition work for video games, feature film and television. As a musician and producer I have released over forty albums of jazz, folk, electronic, punk and modern classical music. I am currently accepting new commissions.
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Why Chris Schlarb?
The world is full of musicians, composers and producers. The hard part is matching the right person with the project they are best suited for.

Here is a quick example: if you want to approximate an orchestra of instruments with a single keyboard, I am probably not the right one for the job. My best work utilizes any number of unique, real world instruments including tabla, euphonium, mandolin, marimba and upright double bass. I thoroughly enjoy working with real instruments, in real spaces, with real musicians.

If your film, video game or album requires texture and atmospheric depth, unique or unusual live instrumentation, and thoughtful arrangement, I would love to hear from you. For the last decade I have explored the ambient, jazz, folk, electronic and modern classical genres as a member of both the American Composers Forum and ASCAP.

I specialize in taking small and medium sized budgets and turning them into expensive sounding recordings. I operate my own mobile recording studio and engineer most sessions, saving time and cost.

My work can be heard on this site and read about in the New York Times, All About Jazz, Time Out New York, Chicago Reader and Pitchfork.

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Asthmatic Kitty


Sounds Are Active
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Create (!)- Moth Nor Rust (2000)

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Recorded over the course of a few months, Moth Nor Rust was the first release by Sounds Are Active (at that time, 1999, called Mantis Music). We pressed and sold almost 200 copies of this album on CD-R’s. I had to burn each individual track because I didn’t have a CD burner on my computer at the time. Eventually the album was mastered, then remastered and is now available for free from the Sounds Are Active website.

I get slightly nostalgic when thinking back on this time. Create (!), from the beginning, was pure fun. Steve Richardson, Orlando Greenhill and I just loved playing music with each other. We never practiced and always let it all hang out on stage. Of course that made for some harrowing live performances but it was always interesting. I can’t think of a better way to become acclimated to taking chances in front of an audience.

Soon Create (!) would change for the first time. We would enter a new phase that included extremely important contributions from Ian Souter (who plays on a few Moth Nor Rust cuts) and Danny Levin. We would then record Patterns.

Personnel
Orlando Greenhill- electric bass, electronics, voice
Richard Greenhill- keyboard
Steve Richardson- drums, sampler, electronics
Chris Schlarb- electric guitar, clarinet, electronics
Ian Souter- trumpet

Produced and Mixed by Create (!)
Engineered by Chris Schlarb

Mar 19, 2007 | discography, recordings, thoughts