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Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser (born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer.

He composed the soundtrack for Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Spiral, and Saw X.

Career[]

Charlie Clouser is an American musician who plays the keyboard, synth, theremin, and drums. He is known for his music programming, engineering, mixing, and remixing abilities and was a band member of Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2000. Before joining Nine Inch Nails, he was in the alternative band Burning Retna with former L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps and fellow Nothing Records worker Sean Beavan. Besides that, Clouser was also a member of 9 Ways to Sunday in 1990. Throughout his career, he has remixed artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, and Meat Beat Manifesto.

In 2004, Clouser produced the album Size Matters by the band Helmet. This album consisted mainly of collaborations between Charlie Clouser and Page Hamilton and was intended to be Page Hamilton's "solo" album. The first release from the project, "Throwing Punches," appeared on the soundtrack for Underworld in 2003 and is credited as a Page Hamilton track.

In the late 1990s, Clouser created one of FirstCom Music's master series discs. However, these were only sold with a license to use commercially. In 1997, two songs programmed by Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards - 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 to 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. In 1999, Rob Zombie's "Dragula" and "Reload" remixes, also credited to Clouser, were included on The Matrix soundtrack. In 2001, he provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour.

Clouser also appeared in a documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for that movie's original soundtrack. He has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring Death Sentence, Resident Evil: Extinction, Dead Silence, Deepwater, and the Saw films. Furthermore, he was the composer for the NBC TV series Las Vegas Freeway and the CBS series NUMB3RS. One of his best-known tracks is the ending theme of the first Saw film, "Hello Zepp," which was reused in different versions throughout the series.

Discography[]

Nine Inch Nails[]

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

Marilyn Manson[]

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

White Zombie[]

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

Rob Zombie[]

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

Filmography[]

Films[]

Year Title
2004 Saw
2005 Deepwater
Saw II
2006 The Box
Saw III
2007 Immigrant
Dead Silence
Death Sentence
Resident Evil: Extinction
Saw IV
2008 The Arrivals
Saw V
2009 The Stepfather
Saw VI
2010 Saw 3D
2011 Talida
2012 The Collection
2015 American Horror Story X: Teletubbies
2016 Walking After You
The Neighbor
Atrás De Você
SAW Heritage
Behind the Scenes of Saw Heritage
2017 Gone
Jigsaw
2018 The Silence
Aquaman
2021 Eye Without a Face
Spiral
2022 Unhuman
2023 Saw X

Television Series[]

Year Title
2002-2003 Fastlane
2003-2008 Las Vegas
2008 Fear Itself
2005-2010 Numb3rs
2015 Childhood's End
2015-2016 Wayward Pines
2016 Good Behavior
2021-2022 American Horror Stories
2011-2023 American Horror Story

Video Games[]

Year Title
2015 Evolve

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