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.
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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I Heart Lung’s Deep Water Tour

A week after Interoceans received a rave review on Pitchfork, I Heart Lung depart for a two week Midwest and East Coast tour. Shows scheduled in Brooklyn at Death By Audio (with Opsvik & Jennings) and Chicago at The Empty Bottle (with Serengeti and DM Stith) on March 3rd and 8th respectively. Full dates and details here.

It has been almost four years since Tom and I have travelled east. I have fond memories from our last tour and am very much looking forward to stopping in at The Bug Jar in Rochester again. I’ll have t-shirts and brand new I Heart Lung 12-inch on hand. Stop by the I Heart Lung Traveling Medicine Show!