Charlie Clouser is a multi-instrumentalist and composer for film, television, and games who lives in Los Angeles. The recipient of ten BMI Film & TV Music awards, Charlie has also received ten platinum and gold record awards for his work with nine inch nails, White Zombie, and others. His scores for all seven films in the "SAW" series combined brutal...
Studied Electronic Music at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA from 1981 - 1985, graduating in 1985. In 1983-1984, During his third year at Hampshire, he did a year-long field study at The Institute of Audio Research in NYC, learning recording engineering techniques.
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Played keyboards in Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2001, as well as drums on a few songs on the NIN+David Bowie tour in 1995.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Good Behavior
2016
TV Series 1 episode
SAW Heritage
2016
Short
Atrás De Você
2016
Short music composed by
The Neighbor
2016/II
Walking After You
2016
Short music by
Wayward Pines
2015-2016
TV Series 13 episodes
Childhood's End
2015
TV Mini-Series 3 episodes
American Horror Story X: Teletubbies
2015
Video short
The Collection
2012/II
Talida
2011
Short
Saw 3D: The Final Chapter
2010
Numb3rs
2005-2010
TV Series 109 episodes
Saw VI
2009
The Stepfather
2009
Saw V
2008
Fear Itself
2008
TV Series 1 episode
Las Vegas
2003-2008
TV Series 98 episodes
Saw IV
2007
Resident Evil: Extinction
2007
Death Sentence
2007
Dead Silence
2007
Immigrant
2007
Short original music by
Saw III
2006
The Box
2006/I
Short music by
Saw II
2005
Deepwater
2005
Saw
2004
Fastlane
2002-2003
TV Series 19 episodes
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Horror Story
TV Series composer - 73 episodes, 2011 - 2016 theme song written by - 37 episodes, 2012 - 2015 theme song - 12 episodes, 2011 writer - 2 episodes, 2015
The Collection
2012/II
score recordist
Saw 3D: The Final Chapter
2010
composer: theme music / music mixer / music recordist / original score performer
Saw VI: Jigsaw Revealed
2010
Documentary short composer: theme music
Saw VI
2009
music mixer / music recordist / original score performer
Saw V
2008
music mixer / music recordist / performer: original score
Las Vegas
2004-2008
TV Series composer - 92 episodes
Saw IV
2007
music mixer / music recordist / original score performer
Dead Silence
2007
music mixer / music recordist
Saw III
2006
music mixer / music recordist / score performer
Saw II
2005
music mixer / music recordist / musician
Saw
2004
score performer
Fastlane
2002-2003
TV Series composer - 17 episodes
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wayward Pines
2015-2016
TV Series writer - 4 episodes
The Completionist
2016
TV Series short writer - 1 episode
The Joke's on You
2015
Video short performer: "Hello Adam", "Silence" / writer: "Hello Adam", "Silence"
American Horror Story
TV Series writer - 33 episodes, 2011 - 2015 performer - 1 episode, 2015
31th D
2014
Short performer: "Hello Zepp" / writer: "Hello Zepp"
Howard Stern Birthday Bash
2014
Video writer: "The Great American Nightmare"
The Zombie Horror Picture Show
2014
writer: "Superbeast"
Guardian of the City
2013
Short "Instrumental musics"
From the Future with Love
2013
Short performer: "Dead Silence" / writer: "Dead Silence"
Brütal Legend
2009
Video Game writer: "Superbeast"
Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising
2009
Video documentary writer: "Starfuckers Inc."
CHIKARA: King of Trios 2009 - Night I
2009
Video music: "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls"
Yes Man
2008
writer: "Fuck This Shit"
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
2008
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Saw II
2005
"Irresponsible Hate Anthem" Venus Head Trap Mix, "Rev 22:20" Rev 4:20 Mix
Moog
2004
Documentary performer: "I Am a Spaceman" / writer: "I Am a Spaceman"
Saw
2004
performer: "Hello Zepp" a.k.a. Final Theme / writer: "Hello Zepp" a.k.a. Final Theme
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
"Reload"
Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
2002
Video documentary writer: "Starfuckers, Inc.", "Starfuckers, Inc." alternate version
Valentine
2001
writer: "Superbeast Porno Holocaust Mix"
Twisted Metal 4
1999
Video Game as Charles Clouser, "Superbeast" Girl On A Motorcycle Mix, "Dragula" Si Non Oscilla, Non Tintinnarr Mix
End of Days
1999
writer: "Superbeast"
Private Parts
1997
writer: "The Great American Nightmare"
Escape from L.A.
1996
"The One"
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996
music: "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls"
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
2002
Video documentary additional camera operator: Mini DV
Sound Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
2002
Video documentary stereo mixer
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
2002
Video documentary programmer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Collector
2009/I
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
I Dream of Wires
2014
Documentary
Himself
Saw - La mécanique de l'extrême
2012
Documentary
Pensado's Place
2012
TV Series
Guest
The Heart Is a Drum Machine
2009
Documentary
Himself
Moog
2004
Documentary
Himself
Nine Inch Nails Live: And All That Could Have Been
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