In 1998, Schlarb co-founded the free improvisation ensemble Create (!). Schlarb founded the record label
Sounds Are Active in 1999.
Sounds Are Active released over 50 albums and produced the
Sean Carnage rockumentary 40 Bands 80 Minutes! (2006). Schlarb's first solo album,
Twilight and Ghost Stories (2007), was the result of recordings sourced from musicians across the US as well as his own home recordings of instruments, rainfall, and traffic.
National Public Radio named ''I Heart Lung's
Interoceans
(2008) one of their Top 5 Jazz Albums of 2008.'' In 2009, Schlarb collaborated with Swedish video game developer
Nifflas on
NightSky. Schlarb composed forty tracks of original music for
NightSky which was nominated for the
Independent Games Festival’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
BoingBoing described the score as “
what game music can be”.
Psychic Temple In 2010, Schlarb formed a band in
Long Beach, California called
Psychic Temple. The band is called a 'cult' by members, drawing from similarities Schlarb observed between bands and cults.
Psychic Temple has released 6 studio albums:
Psychic Temple (
2010),
Psychic Temple II (
2013),
Psychic Temple Plays Music For Airports (
2016),
Psychic Temple III (
2016),
Psychic Temple IV (
2017), and ''Doggie Paddlin' Thru the Cosmic Consciousness'' (
2024).
BIG EGO In 2016, Schlarb and wife, Adriana, opened BIG EGO Studios, a recording studio located in Long Beach, California. In 2018, Schlarb founded BIG EGO Records, a record label that handles all physical distribution with a bi-annual shipment of select vinyl albums to BIG EGO annual series subscribers. Schlarb has collaborated with
Mike Watt (
Minutemen),
Sufjan Stevens,
Nels Cline (
Wilco),
Paul Masvidal (
Cynic),
Mick Rossi (
Philip Glass Ensemble),
Dave Longstreth (
The Dirty Projectors),
Julianna Barwick, Dave Easley (
Brian Blade Fellowship),
Ikey Owens (
The Mars Volta),
Daedelus, Chad Taylor,
Serengeti,
Omid Walizadeh,
Busdriver,
Awol One,
Diane Cluck, Steuart Liebig,
Walter Kitundu,
Soul-Junk, Liz Janes, Maria Elena Silva,
Philip Glenn,
DM Stith, and
Talip Peshkepia. ==Discography==