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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We Scream: Voices From The Ice Cream Underground

For the last six years or so I have wanted to make a documentary film about ice cream truck drivers and paleteros (cart and bike vendors). Having spent years delivering newspapers, copies and organic fruit myself, I have always felt a certain kinship to these professions. What has interested me most about them, however, is the relative secrecy in which they operate. Until now, I have known relatively little about their practices, schedules, routes and routines. Do they work alone? Where do they keep their trucks? Is it a dangerous job?

I couldn’t resist any longer and now my wife and I are trying to plow full steam ahead into this project. I will be composing the score for the film and am trying to raise enough money (through Kickstarter.com) to put some time and love into it. Once it’s done, we’ll release the film and the soundtrack online.

Any financial help you can give will be much appreciated. I promise to give something right back to you once the project is done. Check out the link for a quick trailer, a few short pieces of music and lots of ice cream trucks.

May 27, 2009 | recordings, thoughts