Charlie Clouser

Charles Alexander "Charlie" Clouser (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.

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

Career

Charlie Clouser in an American musician, whose activities include playing keyboard, synth, theremin and drums. He is known for his abilities in music programming, engineering, mixing and remixing and was a member of the band Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 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 worker Sean Beavan. Besides that, Clouser was also a member of the band 9 Ways to Sunday, who 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 album Size Matters by the band Helmet, which consisted mainly of collaborations between Charlie Clouser and Page Hamilton, intended to be a Page Hamilton "solo" album. The first release from the project "Throwing Punches" appeared on a soundtrack in 2003 for the film Underworld, credited as a Page Hamilton track.

In the late 1990s, Clouser created one of FirstCom music's master series discs. These were only sold with licence to use commercially. 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 to record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have", a track of which 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. Another Rob Zombie track remixed by Clouser, "Reload", appears on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack. He produced Helmet's album Size Matters and an unfinished project with Page Hamilton called Gandhi. In 2001, he provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour.

Clouser also appeared 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. He has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring the Saw series of films, as well as Death Sentence, Resident Evil: Extinction, Dead Silence and Deepwater. On television, he is the composer for the NBC TV series Las Vegas Freeway, and the CBS series NUMB3RS. One of his most well known tracks is the ending theme of the first Saw film, "Hello Zepp", which was reused in different versions in all later films in the series.

Discography

Nine Inch Nails

Marilyn Manson

White Zombie

Rob Zombie

Filmography

Films

Television

Gallery

External Links

• Charlie Clouser on Wikipedia
• Charlie Clouser at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie Clouser on Twitter