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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Kickball Vs. Microphone

While I was out at a park recording playground sounds for a short film I saw a large group of older Japanese men and women playing kickball. Apparently they finished before one man had his fill. He proceeded to kick the ball by himself around a large field.

At 2 seconds you can hear him kick the ball from the left.

At 4 seconds the ball lands on the right.

You then hear him run from the left to the right.

At 16 seconds he kicks the ball straight toward my Zoom H4n microphone and tripod stand.

At 17 seconds you hear the impact of the ball and the microphone and then the microphone and the ground.

At 24 seconds you hear the man run to the microphone and gasp. He then attempts to place the microphone back on the stand, at which point I take it from him, he apologizes and I tell him it’s okay.

It wasn’t funny at the time but the more I listen to it, the funnier it becomes. Thankfully the Zoom H4n is pretty well made and it showed no ill affects of the impact and subsequent four foot drop.

Aug 16, 2009 | recordings, thoughts