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.
Clouser provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour in 2001.[citation needed] 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.[6]
Clouser has also worked as a film and television composer, scoring the entire Saw series of films.[7][8] He was the "top choice" for scoring the first film of the series, as director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell are both Nine Inch Nails fans and they used remixes of the band's songs for the temp score. Clouser said, "They wanted progressive, underground music that was kind of underground, and they were looking to inject that flavor in the score."[9] He has also scored films such as Deepwater (2005), Dead Silence (2007),[10]Death Sentence (2007), and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).[11][12] On television, he was the composer for the TV series Las Vegas (NBC),[13] for which he won a BMI TV Music Award,[14][15]Fastlane (Fox), and Numbers (CBS).[16][17] Additionally, he composed the theme song for those shows as well as American Horror Story (FX).[18][19]
Personal life
Clouser married his long-time girlfriend, photographer and model Zoe Wiseman, in the summer of 2007.[citation needed]
"A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley was the theme during the series run in the United States while "Let It Ride" by Clouser was used as the theme in international and DVD versions of the series
