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Clouser was a member of He has shared songwriting credits for the NIN from 1994-2000 songs "[[The Way Out Is Through]]" and was part of the live band on "[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]" He appears in the [[Self DestructNine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]] and " (live), "[[FragilityEraser]] Tours" (live), as well as collaborating with "[[Trent ReznorWish (song)|Wish]] in the studio on various projects; one such collaboration being the " (live), "[[Natural Born KillersThe Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]] Soundtrack on which he aided in recording " and producing a new version of ''"[[Something I Can Never HaveInto The Void (song)|Into The Void]]''". His work can He has also be heard on releases such as ''done remixes for various bands, including: White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, [[Further Down the SpiralProng]]'' , Killing Joke, [[Related bands and ''artists#Type O Negative|Type O Negative]], Zilch, Schwein, Collide, [[Things Falling Apart12 Rounds]]'', Foetus, [[Related bands and artists#Meat Beat Manifesto|Meat Beat Manifesto]] and Esthero.
Charlie Clouser Since leaving the NIN camp in 2001, he has worked as a composer. He has also done remixes for various bandsscored the entire ''Saw'' franchise, includingother scores such as ''Resident Evil: White ZombieExtinction'' (2007), [[Marilyn Manson]]''Death Sentence'' (2007), Rammstein''Dead Silence'' (2007), Prong''Deepwater'' (2005), Killing Jokeas well as TV series such as ''Las Vegas'', Type O Negative''Fastlane'', Schwein''NUMB3RS'', Collide, [[12 Rounds]], Foetus, Meat Beat Manifesto ''American Horror Story'' and ''Wayward Pines''. He also appeared in the documentaries ''Moog'' (2004) and Esthero''I Dream Of Wires'' (2014).
He has also worked as a composer, scoring the films Saw ==Body Of Work with NIN==*''The Downward Spiral'' (20041994), Saw II *''Further Down The Spiral'' (20051995), Saw III *''[[Quake Soundtrack]]'' (20061996) and the TV series Las Vegas; he is currently the composer for the series NUMB3RS.*''[[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]]''
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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?'''
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]].''
==AppearancesExternal links=====*[[Nine Inch Nails]]==https://twitter.com/charlieclouser?lang=*''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' (1994)*''[[Further Down the Spiral]]'' (1995)*''[["The Perfect Drug" Versions|The Perfect Drug]]'' (1997)*''[[Closure (Nine Inch Nails VHS)|Closure]en Charlie Clouser on Twitter]'' (1997)*''[[The Fragile]]'' (1999)*''[[Things Falling Apart]]'' (2000)*''[[And All That Could Have Been]https://charlieclouser.bandcamp.com/music Charlie Clouser on Bandcamp]'' (2002)
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