Charlie Clouser

Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a former NIN band member whose activities include playing drums and keyboard, engineering, mixing and music programming.

Career

Clouser was a member of NIN from 1994-2000 and was part of the live band on the Self Destruct and Fragility Tours, as well as collaborating with Trent Reznor in the studio on various projects; one such collaboration being the 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.

Charlie Clouser has also done remixes for various bands, including: White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Prong, Killing Joke, Type O Negative, Schwein, Collide, 12 Rounds, Foetus, Meat Beat Manifesto and Esthero.

He has also worked as a composer, scoring the films Saw (2004), Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006) and the TV series Las Vegas; he is currently the composer for the series NUMB3RS.

Appearances

• The Downward Spiral (1994)
• Further Down The Spiral (1995)
• The Perfect Drug (1997)
• Closure (1997)
• The Fragile (1999)
• Things Falling Apart (2000)
• And All That Could Have Been (2002)