Charlie Clouser

Charlie Clouser
Birth name	Charles Alexander Clouser
Born	(1963-06-28) June 28, 1963
Origin	Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Genres	Electronica, industrial metal
Occupation(s)	Keyboardist Composer Producer Remixer
Instruments	Synthesizers Drums Bass guitar Theremin
Associated acts	Nine Inch Nails Burning Retina 9 Ways to Sunday Danny Lohner White Zombie

Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser (/ˈklaʊzər/; born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, record producer, and remixer. He was a member of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 1994–2000, and is a composer for film and television. Clouser was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance in 1997.

Life and career

Clouser plays keyboard, synthesizer, theremin, and drums. He also does music programming, engineering, and mixing. He was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails (1994–2000). Before he was in Nine Inch Nails, he was in the alternative band Burning Retna with former L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps and fellow Nothing Records employee Sean Beavan. Clouser also was a member of the band 9 Ways to Sunday, which released a self-titled album in 1990. Clouser has remixed artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein and Meat Beat Manifesto.

In 2004, Clouser produced the Helmet album Size Matters. Consisting mainly of collaborations between Clouser and Page Hamilton, it was intended to be a Hamilton solo album. The first release from the collaboration, known as Throwing Punches, appeared on a soundtrack in 2003 for the film Underworld, and was credited as a Hamilton track. Clouser created one of FirstCom music's master series discs, only sold for commercial use, in the late 1990s.

Two songs programmed by Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards in 1997: White Zombie's "I'm Your Boogie Man" and Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper's "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)," the latter of which Clouser also co-wrote and mixed.

He worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have," the original version of which appeared on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine album. Clouser's remix of Zombie's "Dragula" can be found on The Matrix soundtrack. Another Zombie track remixed by Clouser, "Reload", appears on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack. He produced the unfinished Hamilton project Gandhi.

Clouser provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour in 2001. He appears in the Moog documentary about electronic-music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for the original soundtrack of that movie.

Clouser has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring the Saw series of films, as well as Death Sentence (2007), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Dead Silence (2007), and Deepwater (2005). He composed the ending theme "Hello Zepp" for Saw. On television, he was the composer for the TV series Las Vegas (NBC), Fastlane (Fox), and NUMB3RS (CBS). Additionally, he composed the theme song for those shows as well as American Horror Story(FX).

Personal life

Charlie was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He married his long-time girlfriend, photographer and model Zoe Wiseman in the summer of 2007.

Discography

Nine Inch Nails

• The Downward Spiral (1994)
• Further Down the Spiral (1995)
• The Perfect Drug (1997)
• Closure (1997)
• The Day the World Went Away (1999)
• The Fragile (1999)
• Into the Void (1999)
• Starfuckers, Inc. (1999)
• Things Falling Apart (2000)
• And All That Could Have Been (2002)

Marilyn Manson

• Portrait of an American Family (1994)
• "Lunchbox" (1994)
• Smells Like Children (1995)
• "Sweet Dreams" (1995)
• Antichrist Superstar (1996)
• "Tourniquet Pt. 2" (1997)
• Lest We Forget: The Best Of (2004)

White Zombie

• Astro Creep: 2000 (1995)
• More Human than Human (1995)
• Real Solution #9 (1995)
• Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls (1996)
• Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996)
• Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy) (1996)

Rob Zombie

• The Great American Nightmare (1997)
• Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)
• Dragula (1998)
• Living Dead Girl (1999)
• American Made Music to Strip By (1999)
• Remix-a-Go-Go (1999)
• The Best of Rob Zombie (2006)

Other artists

Clouser has performed on releases with a variety of other artists and bands.

• 9 Ways to Sunday – 9 Ways to Sunday (1990)
• 12 Rounds – Pleasant Smell (1998)
• Alec Empire – Live at Fuji-Rock (2001)
• Apartment 26 – Music for the Massive (2004)
• Black Light Burns – Cruel Melody (2007)
• Burning Retna – Frozen Lies (2006)
• Collide
  • Vortex (2004)
  • Live at the El Rey (2005)
• David Bowie
  • I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
  • Seven (2000)
  • Best of Bowie (2002)
• Deltron 3030 – Positive Contact (2001)
• Die Krupps
  • The Final Remixes (1994)
  • Rings of Steel (1995)
  • Fire (1997)
• Esthero
  • Breath from Another (1998)
  • Heaven Sent (1998)
• FAT – Down Time (1995)
• Foetus – Blow (2001)

• Fuel – Natural Selection (2003)
• Helmet – Size Matters (2004)
• John Frusciante – Shadows Collide with People (2004)
• Killing Joke – Democracy (1996)
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Asbestos Lead Asbestos (1996)
• A Perfect Circle – eMOTIVe (2004)
• Prong
  • Broken Peace (1994)
  • Rude Awakening (1996)
• Puscifer – Don't Shoot the Messenger EP (2007)
• Radiator – Black Shine (remix) (1998)
• Rammstein – Stripped (1998)
• Reach 454 – Reach 454 (2003)
• Real McCoy – Another Night (1994)
• Schwein – Son of Schweinstein (2001)
• Snake River Conspiracy
  • Pre-Fatty Tingle (2000)
  • Sonic Jihad (2000)
• Splattercell – AH - ReMiKSiS (2000)
• Type O Negative
  • Cinnamon Girl (1997)
  • D-Side 1 (2000)
  • Least Worst Of (2000)

Soundtracks and film scores

• Las Vegas (2003)
• Saw (2004)
• Saw II (2005)
• Saw III (2006)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Death Sentence (2007)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Saw IV (2007)
• Saw V (2008)
• Saw VI (2009)
• The Stepfather (2009)
• Saw 3D (2010)
• American Horror Story (2011)
• Wayward Pines (2015)
• Childhood's End (miniseries) (2015)

Miscellaneous

• ECW: Extreme Music (1998)
• Duke Nukem (Music to Score By - the official Duke Nukem Album) (1999)
• Twisted Metal 4 (Video Game Score) (1999)
• Singularity (2010)

External links

• Charlie Clouser at the Internet Movie Database
• Burning Retna on Myspace