Award-winning composers, musicians, and longtime collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are putting together a lineup of some of the world’s most influential film and television composers for a one-day concert full of homages for film score lovers.
The Future Ruins Festival, happening on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, will allow composers including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Questlove and more to reimagine their work for a live audience. The event will feature electronic sets, live bands and orchestral performances, allowing fans of musical compositions to experience the live debuts of composers who rarely appear onstage.
“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,” said Reznor in a press statement.
Tickets for the festival go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, via futureruins.com.
Here is the full composer lineup for the inaugural Future Ruins Festival.
- Cristóbal Tapia de Veer (“Babygirl,” “Smile,” “The White Lotus,” “Black Mirror,” “Utopia” (UK), Philip K. Dick’s “Electric Dreams,” “Ponyboi,” “The Third Day,” “National Treasure” (UK), “The Girl With All The Gifts, Humans”)
- 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,” “Men in Black,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory,” “Big Fish,” “Alice In Wonderland,” “Spider-Man,” “Milk”)
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (“Suspiria,” “Profondo Rosso/Deep Red,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Demons,” “Tenebrae,” “Phenomena,” “Opera”)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker,” “Chernobyl,” “A Haunting in Venice,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Mary Magdalene,” “Tár,” “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” “Women Talking,” “Hedda”)
- A performance of Howard Shore’s score of David Cronenberg’s “Crash”
- Isobel Waller-Bridge (“Munich: The Edge of War,” “Emma.,” “Black Mirror,” “I Came By,” “Wicked Little Letters,” “Fleabag,” “The Lesson,” “The Boy,” “the Mole,” “the Fox and the Horse,” “Magpie,” “Sweetpea”)
- 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,” “Native Son,” “Butterfly,” “Retaliators,” “Valley of the Boom”)
- Mark Mothersbaugh (“The Life Aquatic,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Rushmore,” “Bottle Rocket,” “Rugrats,” “The Lego Movie,” “A Minecraft Movie,” “Cocaine Bear,” “Thor: Ragnarok”)
- Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (“Candyman,” “Master,” “Telemarketers,” “The Color of Care,” “Grasshopper Republic,” “Power,”” Unvion,” “Seeds,” “Life After”)
- Tamar-kali (“Mudbound,” “Shirley,” “The Assistant,” “The Fire Inside,” “The Last Thing He Wanted,” “Come Sunday,” “Palmer,” “The Lie,” “Little Richard: I am Everything”)
- Terence Blanchard (“BlacKkKlansman,” “Malcolm X,” “Inside Man,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “When the Levees Broke,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Woman King,” “Perry Mason”)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (“The Social Network,” “Watchmen,” “Gone Girl,” “Soul,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Challengers,” “Empire of Light,” “Waves,” “The Vietnam War,” “Mank,” “The Killer”)
- Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (“All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Conclave,” “Lion,” “The Amateur,” “Dune: Prophecy,” “The Day of the Jackal,” “Hollywoodgate,” “Adrift,” “War Sailor,” “The Old Guard,” “Stowaway,” “Patrick Melrose”)