Charlie Clouser

Charlie Clouser

Charlie Clouser , actually Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover , New Hampshire , USA ) is an American musician and composer .

Career

Charlie Clouser started playing drums as a child . In 1979, in high school , synthesizers and drum machines were added. He later moved to Hampshire College in Amherst , Massachusetts to become an architect. After he got his first computer in 1981 , it was here that he took a serious interest in electronic music. He learned the technical aspects of this music at the Institute of Audio Research in New York .

After graduating, he worked for a chain of music stores in New York while also working as a programmer for the originally Australian film composer Cameron Allan. He made small contributions to Allan's compositions for the television series The Equalizer . This work also brought him to Los Angeles , where he met Trent Reznor in 1994 . He first produced sound effects for a music video for him, but found himself a little later in the production of Marilyn Manson's album Antichrist Superstar , for which he programmed drum sounds.

Finally, Clouser became a member of the Nine Inch Nails and from 1994 played as a keyboardist on the Self Destruct and as a support act on the Outside tour of David Bowie . For the production of The Downward Spiral , the band quartered in the band's own Nothing Studios in New Orleans . During this time and afterwards, Charlie Clouser made a name for himself as one of the most sought-after remixers on the music scene. He made remixes for Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Rob Zombie , Jamiroquai and others. a. on. In 1997 he received two Grammy nominations for his work for Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper . In 1999 the album The Fragile was released , in which he contributed most of the contributions after Trent Reznor and alongside Danny Lohner . On the following Fragility Tour (1999-2000) he again took part as a keyboardist. After the tour, he left the Nine Inch Nails.

After that he worked as a remixer , toured with Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot and began composing again for films and television series. He created u. a. Music for the series Fastlane , Numb3rs , Las Vegas and Wayward Pines , as well as for Resident Evil: Extinction , the Saw films, Death Sentence , Dead Silence , The Collection - The Collector 2 and the video game Singularity by Raven Software .

Web links

• Charlie Clouser in the Internet Movie Database (English)