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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 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 originally hired by [[Trent Reznor]] in the early nineties as a studio programmer. In an interview with ''LoudwireComingSoon''[https://loudwirewww.comcomingsoon.net/horror/pb_article_type/charlie747395-clouserexclusive-nineinterview-inchcomposer-nailscharlie-pastclouser-filmsaw-tvnin-scoringwayward-present/pines], he explains further:

<blockquote>I think what first sucked me into '''How did you meet up with TrentReznor and Nine Inch Nails?'''s world  It wasworking for that composer that brought me from New York to Los Angeles, at 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 time"[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]" music video, which had this would have been about '92 when I started working with him 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 at meat grinder-type sounds. They had all the timegear they needed, they just needed someone to bring in new sounds and a different approach. I was doing showed up with a disk drive that had a lot bunch of drum and synth programming for hard rock/industrial acts samples of stuff like Prong dentist drills, jackhammers, and White Zombie and things shit like that. OriginallySo 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 first 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 did for Trent was programming drum reinforcements wondering if you could help me out on [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]'s first record. " He was busy with three or four things at once, preparing for a tour, finishing in the final stages of the ''[[The Downward Spiral (albumhalo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' album. And, while at the same time producing the [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson had recorded their basic tracks for their first album ]] record and Trent thought didn't have the time to fix the drums on the Manson record. So he had me do drum needed to be beefed replacement and fatten upthe acoustic samples. So once Igot there, being I kind of never left. '''How long did you stay on as a sampler jockey and sequencer wiz, behind-the-scenes member of the group?''' Before I was brought in to justplaying on stage with the band, not to create anything new, but just to stack I went on the road with them for quite awhile setting up and operating a portable studio. We had a bunch of computers and add fatness behind synths that we'd haul around in the basic tracks 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 Manson's first albuma while. AndEventually, he allocated "X" amount of days or weeks or whatever it the original keyboard player [[James Woolley]] was for me fixing to do that and I finished leave so it a lot quicker than he thought and then he started sayingwas like, "Hmmhey dude, this guy is a wiz with some you're up. I kind of took over in the middle of this program stuffthe tour. Maybe we should bring him into My first gig ever playing keyboards live and in front of people was for like 20-some thousand people at the loopPalace of Auburn Hills outside of Detroit."</blockquote>

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 (band)|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, scoring . He has scored the films entire ''Saw'' (2004), ''Saw II'' (2005), ''Saw III'' (2006), ''Saw IV'' (2007), ''Saw V'' (2008), ''Saw VI'' (2009), ''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]]''