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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, [[Related bands and artists#Type O Negative|Type O Negative]]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]], Foetus, '' album while at the same time producing the [[Related bands and artists#Meat Beat ManifestoMarilyn Manson (band)|Meat Beat ManifestoMarilyn Manson]] record and Estherodidn'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.

He has also worked '''How long did you stay on as a composer, scoring behind-the-scenes member of the films group?''Saw' 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' (2004)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 ''Saw II[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack|Natural Born Killers]]'' (2005), 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 ''Saw III[[Further Down the Spiral]]'' (2006), and ''Saw IV[[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]]" (2007live), "[[Eraser]]" (live), ''Saw V'' "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]" (2008live), ''Saw VI'' "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" and "[[Into The Void (2009song)|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 VII'' (2010)franchise, other scores such as ''Resident Evil: Extinction'' (2007), ''Death Sentence'' (2007), ''Dead Silence'' (2007), ''Deepwater'' (2005) and ''End Of Days'' (1999), as well as the TV series such as ''Las Vegas'' (2003 - 2007) and , ''Fastlane'' (2005). He is currently the composer for the series , ''NUMB3RS'', ''American Horror Story'' and ''Wayward Pines''. He also appeared in the film documentaries ''Moog'' (2004) and ''I Dream Of Wires'' (2014).

*''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' (1994)

*''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack]]''