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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Twittering

I don’t really have much desire, or time, to participate in most of the social networking craze but I did recently sign up for Twitter. I am still getting the hang of it and can see how it might supplement the the content of this site with small, so called, “mirco-blogging”.

What I enjoy most about this site is that I can work on an essay or a group of thoughts and eventually publish them as a cohesive whole. Twitter, on the other hand seems to function, for me, like a spastic diary of sorts: where am I, what am I doing, who am I with and so on.

Of course the paranoid in me thinks this may be a mistake. Time will tell.

Anyhow if you want to “follow” yours truly, you can find me at: twitter.com/schlarb

Aug 20, 2008 | thoughts