Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) are assembling some of the world’s most influential film and television composers for the Future Ruins Music & Arts Festival, set to take place on November 8 in Los Angeles, California.
Dubbed the first music festival of its kind presented by Live Nation, the day-long event brings celebrated composers to the stage, along with electronic DJ sets. “It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” says Reznor, in a statement.
The event will be set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center with every artist treated as a headliner, having their own curated moments on stage. “This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” says Reznor and Ross.
The duo adds that the lineup is more than just a music festival, it’s a cinematic ceremony and a deep dive into sound and story, making it a historic first for the city of Los Angeles.
Here’s the full lineup of composers:
- Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror)
- Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil War, Annihilation)
- Danny Elfman (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Alice In Wonderland, Spider-Man)
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead, Tenebrae)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Tár)
- A performance of Howard Shore’s score of Crash, directed by David Cronenberg
- Isobel Waller-Bridge (Emma., Black Mirror, Fleabag, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse)
- John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York)
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things)
- Mark Mothersbaugh (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Thor: Ragnarok)
- Questlove (presenting the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Master, Telemarketers)
- Tamar-kali (The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted)
- Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers)
- Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal)
Tickets are available starting May 22 at 3:00 AM (PH Time).
Reznor and Ross will be scoring the upcoming Tron: Ares film and After the Hunt, directed by Luca Guadagnino, both releasing this October. The industrial rock pioneers will also embark on their Peel It Back Tour starting June 15, across Europe and North America.