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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Sounds Are Active
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Here’s to Focusing and Working

With the welcome demise of the Sounds Are Active myspace page and the more painful shuttering of the BBS I have started to create a framework for two important things: family life and making music. I still enjoy talking with anyone about music and I am always hopeful that the music I love or have released will reach out to a wider audience. However, I have for too long sacrificed quite a lot of time and money in addition to overloading myself with projects that have reduced my enthusiasm and passion for the music that I create.

Here’s to focusing on being an artist and less on being a mogul.

My family too, has patiently made allowances for my late nights and insufferable attachment to the computer. My gift back to them is to make the most of my time, get comfortable not working on a thousand things and have fun. The near future will be an interesting and revealing time.

Here’s to working on working less and living more.

Jun 07, 2007 | thoughts