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.

Record Labels


Asthmatic Kitty


Sounds Are Active
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Discography

2009

Schlarb Family- White Christmas Album Destroyer Of Brains- Song For Charles Rocket DM Stith- Braid of Voices Stationary Odyssey- Sons of Boy The Widow Babies- Jetpacks
I Heart Lung/DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos The Commotions- The Commotions Busdriver- Jhelli Beam DM Stith- Heavy Ghost Chris Schlarb Quintet- Comma

2008

I Heart Lung- Interoceans I Heart Lung- Interoceans Remixed The Widow Babies- The Mike Watt EP Stevie G. Band- Mulege Schlarb Family- Christmas Album 2008

2007

Chris I Heart Lung- Between Them A Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet Anthony Shadduck Quartet- Debut ellul- ellul ellul- remixes
My Brightest Diamond- Tear It Down Chris Schlarb Needs To Apply Himself Chris Schlarb Can't Read Music Very Well Chris Schlarb Once Attended A Joe Satriani Concert Chris Schlarb Says Don't Panic

2004

Xn.- I Heart Lung- Blood & Light Acid Reign- Ready Yet? Chris Schlarb Just Needed One More Album To Make This Easier Chris Schlarb Was Unimpressive