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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Booklist

A list of the books I have started, finished, purchased, devoured and dog-eared.

2008

The Genius Factory by David Plotz
Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross
Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross
This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Steely Dan by Brian Sweet
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

2007

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Clapton by Eric Clapton
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgeman
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
What To Eat by Marion Nestle
Who Wrote The New Testament? by Burton L. Mack
Talk To Her by Kristine McKenna
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
The Devil’s Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law by Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

2006

iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
The Big Bam by Leigh Montville
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
New Rules by Bill Maher
Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Search by John Battelle