Name: Charlie Clouser

Birthplace: Pennsylvania, near three mile island

Current Address: New Orleans, Louisiana

Hair color: Dark Brown-black

Education: High school, then choose-your-own-courses, no-grades college, where he took full advantage of the computer music lab.

Smoke? No

Primary Instrument: Keyboard

History - "It goes like this: You're a drummer. They invent drum machines. Drum machines sound better than you ever did. You get drum machine. Since you're a drummer, you can program better beats than everyone else. You get a sampler to sample drum sounds, and a sequencer (computer) to sequence them with. Next thing you know, you're the only guy who can work that shit, and you play keyboards with two fingers and it still sounds better than a real keyboard player who can't work the rig. Voila, you're a keyboard player. Even though you suck."

Other Information: Charlie Clouser is the newest member to Nine Inch Nails. He is chiefly concerned with programming, engineering, and mixing of tracks. Other artists he has worked with, but was not a member, are: Marilyn Manson, Prong, and White Zombie.