Charlie Clouser

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Charlie Clouser

Background information
Birth name	Charles Alexander Clouser
Born	June 28, 1963
Origin	Hanover, New Hampshire
Genre(s)	Electronica, Industrial metal
Occupation(s)	Keyboardist, Composer, Producer
Instrument(s)	Synthesizers, Drums, Bass Guitar, Theremin
Associated acts	Nine Inch Nails

Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician whose activities include playing keyboard and drums, music programming, engineering, and mixing. He was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails from 1994-2000, and has done remixes for bands such as White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Prong, Killing Joke, Type O Negative, Schwein, Collide, 12 Rounds, Foetus, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Meat Beat Manifesto and Esthero.

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 to Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have", a track whose original version appeared on Nine Inch Nails' pretty hate machine album. The remix of Rob Zombie's "Dragula" can be found on The Matrix soundtrack, also credited to Clouser. He produced Helmet's album Size Matters as well as the unfinished project with Page Hamilton called "Gandhi".

He appears in the Moog documentary dedicated to Robert Moog and composed "I am a spaceman" for the Original soundtrack of that movie.

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

For the film Saw, he composed the infamous ending theme "Hello Zepp".