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}}'''Charles Alexander Clouser''' (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a film composer and former [[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.

Clouser 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 originally hired by [[Trent Reznor]] in the early nineties as a studio on various projectsprogrammer. One such collaboration being the In an interview with ''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack|Natural Born Killers]]ComingSoon'' soundtrack on which he aided in recording and producing a new version of "[[Something I Can Never Have]]https://www.comingsoon." His work can also be heard on releases such as ''[[Further Down the Spiralnet/horror/pb_article_type/747395-exclusive-interview-composer-charlie-clouser-saw-nin-wayward-pines]]'' and ''[[Things Falling Apart]].'', he explains further:

Clouser has shared songwriting credits for the NIN songs "[[The Way Out Is Through]]" <blockquote>'''How did you meet up with Trent Reznor and "[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]" He appears in the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" (live), "[[Eraser]]" (live), "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]" (live), "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" and "[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]".?'''

Clouser has also done remixes It was working for various bandsthat composer that brought me from New York to Los Angeles, including: White Zombiewhere 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 "[[Marilyn Manson Happiness In Slavery (bandsong)|Marilyn MansonHappiness In Slavery]]" music video, Rammsteinwhich 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, [[Prong]]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, Killing Jokejackhammers, Type O Negativeand 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, Zilchso Trent and I spent the rest of the time playing video games and screwing around in the studio and, Schweinthen, Collidebefore 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 ''[[12 RoundsThe 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, Foetus, Meat Beat Manifesto and EstheroI kind of never left.

He has also worked as a composer, scoring the films ''Saw'' (2004), ''Saw II'' (2005), ''Saw III'' (2006), ''Saw IV'' (2007), ''Saw V'' (2008), ''Saw VI'' (2009), ''Saw VII'' (2010), ''Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007), ''Death Sentence'' (2007), ''Dead Silence'' (2007), ''Deepwater'' (2005) and ''End Of Days'' (1999), as well How long did you stay on as a behind-the TV series ''Las Vegas'' (2003 - 2007) and ''Fastlane'' (2005). He is currently the composer for the series ''NUMB3RS''. He also appeared in scenes member of the film 'group?'Moog'' (2004).

Before I was playing on stage with the band, I went on the road with them for quite awhile setting up and operating a portable studio. We had a bunch of computers and synths that we'd haul around in the buses and would set it up in hotel rooms whenever there were a few days off so Trent could do some writing. I did that for a while. Eventually, the original keyboard player [[James Woolley]] was fixing to leave so it was like, hey dude, you're up. I kind of took over in the middle of the tour. My first gig ever playing keyboards live and in front of people was for like 20-some thousand people at the Palace of Auburn Hills outside of Detroit.</blockquote> Clouser 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 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 "[[Something I Can Never Have]]." His work can also be heard on releases such as ''[[Further Down the Spiral]]'' and ''[[Things Falling Apart]].'' He has shared songwriting credits for the NIN songs "[[The Way Out Is Through]]" and "[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]" He appears in the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" (live), "[[Eraser]]" (live), "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]" (live), "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" and "[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]". He has also done remixes for various 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). ==Body Of Workwith NIN==*''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' (1994)