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'''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. '''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>
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 (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 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 as the TV series ''Las Vegas'', ''Fastlane'' and ''NUMB3RS''. He also appeared in the film ''Moog'' (2004).