Charlie Clouser




































Charlie Clouser

Charlie Clouser by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Clouser in 2017

Background information
Birth name Charles Alexander Clouser
Born
(1963-06-28) June 28, 1963 (age 55)
Origin
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Genres
Industrial metal, electronica, alternative rock, trip hop
Occupation(s)
Keyboardist
Composer
Producer
Remixer
Instruments
Synthesizers, drums, bass, theremin, guitar, vocals
Associated acts
Nine Inch Nails
Burning Retina
9 Ways to Sunday
Danny Lohner
White Zombie
Atari Teenage Riot
Rob Zombie

Charles Alexander Clouser (/ˈklzər/;[1] born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, record producer, and remixer. He worked with Trent Reznor for Nine Inch Nails from 1994–2000 , and is a composer for film and television; among his credits are the score for the Saw franchise and American Horror Story. Clouser was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance in 1997.




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Personal life


  • 3 Discography


    • 3.1 Other artists


    • 3.2 Soundtracks


      • 3.2.1 Film


      • 3.2.2 Television


      • 3.2.3 Video games






  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Life and career


Clouser plays keyboard, synthesizer, theremin, and drums. He also does music programming, engineering, and mixing. He co-worked with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (1994–2000) for several projects. Before he worked with 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, White Zombie, 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 entire Saw series of films,[2] as well as Deepwater (2005), Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).[3] 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. He is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.



Discography











Other artists


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











Soundtracks



Film




















































































Year
Title
Director
Studio(s)
2004

Saw

James Wan

Lionsgate Films
2005

Deepwater
David S. Marfield
Halcyon Entertainment

Saw II

Darren Lynn Bousman
Lionsgate Films
2006

Saw III
2007

Dead Silence

James Wan

Universal Pictures

Death Sentence

Resident Evil: Extinction

Russell Mulcahy

Screen Gems

Saw IV
Darren Lynn Bousman
Lionsgate Films
2008

Saw V

David Hackl
2009

The Stepfather

Nelson McCormick
Screen Gems

Saw VI

Kevin Greutert
Lionsgate Films
2010

Saw 3D
2012

The Collection

Marcus Dunstan

LD Entertainment
2016

The Neighbor

Anchor Bay Films
2017

Jigsaw[4]

The Spierig Brothers
Lionsgate Films


Television



















































Year
Title
Studio(s)
Notes
2002–2003

Fastlane

Warner Bros. Television
20th Century Fox Television
N/A
2003–2008

Las Vegas

DreamWorks Television
N/A
2005–2010

NUMB3RS

Scott Free Productions
N/A
2008

Fear Itself

Lionsgate Television
N/A
2011

American Horror Story
20th Century Fox Television
Theme music
2015

Childhood's End

Universal Cable Productions
N/A
2015–2016

Wayward Pines
20th Century Fox Television
N/A


Video games
























Year
Title
Developer
Publisher
Notes
2009

Singularity

Raven Software

Activision
With Michael Wandmacher
2015

Evolve

Turtle Rock Studios

2K Games
With Jason Graves, Lustmord & Danny Cocke


References





  1. ^ "SoundtrackNet: Video: Charlie Clouser talks about scoring Resident Evil: Extinction". Retrieved 2006-11-02..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "[Exclusive] The Sounds of SAW: An Interview with Composer CHARLIE CLOUSER | Nightmare on Film Street". Nightmare on Film Street. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2018-01-10.


  3. ^ "SoundtrackNet: Charlie Clouser". Retrieved 2006-11-02.


  4. ^ "'Saw: Legacy' to Be Scored by Franchise Veteran Charlie Clouser (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. October 7, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.




External links




  • Charlie Clouser on IMDb

  • Burning Retna on Myspace










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