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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The Week In Reading

A much needed article (in the NY Times!) on Mad Magazine artist and Fold-In creator Al Jaffee. I remember looking for pictures of Jaffee, Jack Davis and Don Martin years ago and couldn’t find anything. Nice to see Al is still around and working with great flourish, whether he thinks so or not.
The Times also [...]

The Year In Reading

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They have weathered the print to web storm and have come out as the clear victors of both content and style. With Khoi Vinh’s beautiful redesign in 2006 the Times became a joy to read online. Add writing from Jon Pareles, Mark Bittman and David Pogue and you’ve got one hell of a [...]

God Is Not Great

Last week I finished Christopher Hitchens‘ newest book and current best-seller, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, thus completing a Trinity of recent readings about God which included Richard Dawkins‘ The God Delusion and Francis Collins‘ The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
While I found Dawkins’ book intelligently written [...]