Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have unveiled Future Ruins, a bold new festival billed as a “cinematic ceremony,” charting uncharted territory by spotlighting the sublime talents of film and television composers. In a city steeped in celluloid history, Los Angeles now readies itself for a singular spectacle at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on November 8, where composers will reimagine their revered scores, reshaping familiar filmic refrains for the concert stage.
Future Ruins will unfold across three stages at the Equestrian Center, with a mission as ambitious as its name: to embolden its performers to “take big swings and reimagine their work for a live audience.” The formidable bill includes Mark Mothersbaugh, Questlove, Danny Elfman, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, and a rare performance of Howard Shore’s score for Crash—conducted in homage to the body-horror auteur himself, David Cronenberg.
Future Ruins pledges reinvention of the classics in a grand gathering where cinema’s musical masterminds boldly break free from studio seclusion, stepping into the spotlight to summon symphonic splendour anew.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” Reznor and Ross explained in a statement. “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.”
Featured Artists:
- Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Black Mirror)
- Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror, Devs)
- Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice)
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl)
- A performance of Howard Shore’s score of David Cronenberg’s Crash
- Isobel Waller-Bridge (Black Mirror, Fleabag)
- John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York)
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres)
- Mark Mothersbaugh (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats)
- Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Master, Telemarketers)
- Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant)
- Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, When the Levees Broke)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers)
- Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave)
Tickets are available starting Wednesday, May 21 at 12 p.m. PT here.
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