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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.

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. '''What was that era like for performing? It is kind of the border between a major analog-to-digital crossover.''' It was really a great time to be involved with someone like Trent, who was at the cutting edge of sonic experimentation. As we went on, we started to get more digital and software-based tools, but were right there on the bleeding edge of it, using funky old PC computers with shareware programs to granulate and manipulate samples. That formed a big part of the sound of the ''The Downward Spiral'' and ''The Fragile'' albums. It's a different context but I can still apply a lot those same attitudes towards experimentation with sound in the scores that I do.</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'', ''Fastlane'', ''NUMB3RS'', ''American Horror Story'' and ''NUMB3RSWayward 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]]''