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Clouser Before I was a member of NIN from 1994-2000 and was part of playing on stage with the live band , I went on the [[Self Destruct]] road with them for quite awhile setting up and operating a portable studio. We had a bunch of computers and [[Fragility]] Tours, as well as collaborating with [[Trent Reznor]] synths that we'd haul around in the studio on various projects; one such collaboration being the [[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack|Natural Born Killers]] Soundtrack on which he aided buses and would set it up in recording and producing hotel rooms whenever there were a few days off so Trent could do some writing. I did that for a new version of ''while. Eventually, the original keyboard player [[Something I Can Never HaveJames Woolley]]was fixing to leave so it was like, hey dude, you''re up. His work can also be heard on releases such as ''[[Further Down I kind of took over in the middle of the Spiral]]'' tour. My first gig ever playing keyboards live and ''[[Things Falling Apart]]''in front of people was for like 20-some thousand people at the Palace of Auburn Hills outside of Detroit. </blockquote>
Charlie Clouser has also done remixes for was a member of NIN from 1994-2000 and was part of the live band on the [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle|Self Destruct]] and [[Fragility]] tours, as well as collaborating with Reznor in the studio on various bands, including: White Zombie, projects. One such collaboration being the ''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack|Natural Born Killers]]'' soundtrack on which he aided in recording and producing a new version of "[[Marilyn MansonSomething I Can Never Have]], Rammstein, Prong, Killing Joke, Type O Negative, Schwein, Collide, ." His work can also be heard on releases such as ''[[12 RoundsFurther Down the Spiral]], Foetus, Meat Beat Manifesto '' and Esthero''[[Things Falling Apart]].''
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{{Member| name = Charlie Clouser| imgname = CharlieClouser.jpg| instruments = Keyboards, Programming, Backing Vocals, Theremin, Drums| years = 1994-2001| tours = [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle|Self Destruct]]-[[Fragility]]}}'''Charles Alexander Clouser ''' (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a film composer and former NIN [[Nine Inch Nails]] band member whose activities include included playing drums and keyboard, engineering, mixing and music programming. Clouser (along with [[Richard Patrick]], [[Danny Lohner]] and [[Chris Vrenna]]) joined NIN onstage for six songs at the [[2022/09/24_Cleveland,_OH|Cleveland show]] of the [[NIN 2022]] tour. While Clouser was not inducted into the [[Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame]] along with NIN, he attended the Rock Hall's special NIN fan day that took place in 2022. [[Trent Reznor]] stated during a livestreamed band interview[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOlqBkaY6YY] that he wanted Clouser and Richard Patrick to be included, but that he was only allowed so many band members.
==Career==
Clouser was originally hired by Trent Reznor in the early nineties as a studio programmer. In an interview with ''ComingSoon''[https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/pb_article_type/747395-exclusive-interview-composer-charlie-clouser-saw-nin-wayward-pines], he explains further:
<blockquote>'''How did you meet up with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails?'''
It was working for that composer that brought me from New York to Los Angeles, where I reunited with a bunch of college friends from back east, one of whom was one of many producers on a Nine Inch Nails music video. [Nine Inch Nails] needed some sound effects for the "[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]" music video, which had this performance artist Bob Flanagan being eaten alive by this mechanical torture chair. They needed the sound effects that the mechanical chair was going to make: sort of motor and meat grinder-type sounds. They had all the gear they needed, they just needed someone to bring in new sounds and a different approach. I showed up with a disk drive that had a bunch of samples of stuff like dentist drills, jackhammers, and shit like that. So we manipulated a bunch of sounds and did this thing as basically an overdub for the music video. We finished it in just a couple of hours and had all this extra time, so Trent and I spent the rest of the time playing video games and screwing around in the studio and, then, before I left he said, "well I have this other thing that I am doing that I was wondering if you could help me out on." He was in the final stages of the ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' album while at the same time producing the [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] record and didn't have the time to fix the drums on the Manson record. So he had me do drum replacement and fatten up the acoustic samples. So once I got there, I kind of never left.
'''How long did you stay on as a behind-the-scenes member of the group?'''
He has also worked as a composershared songwriting credits for the NIN songs "[[The Way Out Is Through]]" and "[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, scoring Inc.]]" He appears in the films Saw [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" (2004live), Saw II "[[Eraser]]" (2005live), Saw III "[[Wish (2006song) |Wish]]" (live), "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" and the TV series Las Vegas; he is currently the composer "[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]". He has also done remixes for the series NUMB3RSvarious bands, including: White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, [[Prong]], Killing Joke, [[Related bands and artists#Type O Negative|Type O Negative]], Zilch, Schwein, Collide, [[12 Rounds]], Foetus, [[Related bands and artists#Meat Beat Manifesto|Meat Beat Manifesto]] and Esthero.
Since leaving the NIN camp in 2001, he has worked as a composer. He has scored the entire ''Saw'' franchise, other scores such as ''Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007), ''Death Sentence'' (2007), ''Dead Silence'' (2007), ''Deepwater'' (2005), as well as TV series such as ''Las Vegas'', ''Fastlane'', ''NUMB3RS'', ''American Horror Story'' and ''Wayward Pines''. He also appeared in the documentaries ''Moog'' (2004) and ''I Dream Of Wires'' (2014). ==AppearancesBody Of Work with NIN==*''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' (1994)*''[[Further Down The Spiral'' (1995)*''[[Quake Soundtrack]]'' (19951996)*''[[The Perfect Drug (halo)|The Perfect Drug]]'' (1997)
*''[[Closure]]'' (1997)
*''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]'' (1999)*''[[Things Falling Apart]]'' (2000)*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (2002)===Other===*''Natural Born Killers Soundtrack''*''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]'' ==External links==*[https://twitter.com/charlieclouser?lang=en Charlie Clouser on Twitter]*[https://charlieclouser.bandcamp.com/music Charlie Clouser on Bandcamp]
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