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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IN TRANSIT presents: 16mm

16mm

On May 19th, 2008, I Heart Lung went into Matt Wignall’s Tackyland Studio in Long Beach and recorded music to accompany a series of colorful short films by Canadian visual artist Jonathan Dueck. Jonathan has designed album covers for Soul-Junk, Rafter Roberts, Liz Janes and many others, he is also responsible for bringing West African artist Hermas Zopoula to the attention of the Asthmatic Kitty record label. For the past few years Dueck has quietly scratched, painted and stamped over repurposed 16mm film. Eventually he wound up with 20 short films each running 1 to 2 minutes in length. He then asked four different artists to compose soundtracks: Chad VanGaalen, Son Lux, Deneir and I Heart Lung.

After four years of work, Jonathan Dueck’s 16mm project is ready. Well, almost… All he needs now is to raise enough money to package the booklet, DVD and CD together and he’s doing it through Kickstarter.com. You can help make it all possible for only a $10 pledge. Just so you know, pledging now will not remove any funds from your account, if Jonathan does not reach his goal of $2,600 in the next 60 days, you don’t pay anything. I cannot recommend your support for this project highly enough. Check out Jonathan’s video and Kickstarter page here.

Oct 26, 2009 | featured, recordings, video