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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Another Great Convergence

Everything is starting to come together again. I usually have so many projects ongoing that this sort of thing is inevitable and happens a few times a year.

Here, for example, is a short list of what has transpired in the last month:

  • Finished mixing the new I Heart Lung album, Interoceans.
  • Drove out to master it with Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Toured the West Coast with I Heart Lung and Sounds Are Active label-mates, ellul.
  • Took some photos of the tour and posted them on Flickr.
  • Recorded five new compositions with I Heart Lung for a 16mm video project with Jonathan Dueck.
  • Drove 19 hours straight home from Portland, Oregon to Long Beach, California. Stopped in San Francisco to drop off ellul, picked up some In-N-Out and then kept on trucking.
  • Started reading an interesting Steely Dan biography written by British author Brian Sweet.
  • Also started Yelping.
  • Mixed down and mastered The Widow Babies forthcoming album, The Mike Watt EP.
  • Then mixed it down again. Gotta master again.
  • Filled in over at Spud! for a few days. Worked 23 hours in 48 hours.
  • Spent a day filming a few interesting on location live performances with I Heart Lung and Sean Carnage.

    • Soon I will be finishing up an album with singer/songwriter Steve Gerstein. Then I will start mixing down the recordings from the first couple of sessions I had with Liz Janes and the band at the Compound a few months ago.

    Then I will be jumping into the studio with LA-based progressive instrumental band Charts and Maps and will try to get I Heart Lung into the studio to record our side of the “Ecstatic Duos” series being released by Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions.

    All the while I will be working on finishing the score for an aforementioned video game project with game designer Nifflas Nygren.

    I need to have my electric guitar intonated too.

    May 26, 2008 | I Heart Lung, live performance, recordings