The festival, which will happen on November 8 is set to celebrate iconic film and television composers
The festival will take place at Equestrian Center in LA. It goes without saying, the festival definitely promises to something we’ve never really seen before. I mean, film and TV composers stepping out from behind the screen and flexing in full view. It doesn’t exactly happen every other day now does it?
This isn’t your usual nostalgia cash-in or ambient snoozefest either. Future Ruins is a carefully curated mind-bender. I mean, iconic names like John Carpenter, Danny Elfman and Hildur Guðnadóttir reimagining their iconic work for a live setting. So we’re talking full-blown orchestras, glitchy electronica, and band-backed score performances that will almost certainly hit hard.
Here there’s no headliners and no egos. Just a “stacked lineup of visionaries,” as Reznor put it, all taking big swings.
The roster is wild: Danny Elfman (Batman, Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas), Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus), Questlove repping Curtis Mayfield’s cinematic side, plus Goblin, Isobel Waller-Bridge, and the Nine Inch Nails boys themselves. Add in heavyweights like Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things), and Howard Shore’s Crash score getting the full treatment, and you’ve got a lineup that’ll make any soundtrack junkie drool.
Reznor and Ross have more than earned the right to host this thing. Their score work includes The Social Network, Gone Girl, Watchmen, Challengers, Soul, and beyond. Need I say anymore? I mean, they even won a third Golden Globe for their work on Challengers.
Tickets drop on 21 May, and can be purchased here. So whether you’re a cinephile, an audiophile, or just someone who wants to feel something weird and massive in surround sound, Future Ruins is the kind of left-field event that reminds you what live music can be.
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