Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have announced Future Ruins, a new music and arts festival that celebrates film and television composers. The inaugural lineup includes Reznor and Ross as well as John Carpenter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Questlove performing the score works of Curtis Mayfield, and more. Future Ruins will take place November 8 at the Equestrian Center in Los Angeles, California. See the festival poster below.
“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 statement. “There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again.”
Future Ruins will take place across three stages at the Equestrian Center, and prides itself on encouraging its artists to “take big swings and reimagine their work for a live audience.” Rounding out the lineup are Cristóbal Tapia De Veer, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, Danny Elfman, Hildur Guonadóttir, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Tamar-Kali, Terence Blanchard, Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka, and a performance of Howard Shore’s score for Crash by David Cronenberg.
Reznor and Ross seem to always be in the studio working on film scores these days, and that also extends to racking up nominations at awards shows for their compositions, too. Earlier this year, the Nine Inch Nails musicians won Best Original Score at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards for Challengers – much to the delight of Elton John, who presented them with the award and let out a hearty “Yay!” upon opening the envelope.
Read about Carpenter’s Halloween, Reznor and Ross’ The Social Network, and more in “The 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time” and revisit “John Carpenter on the Music That Made Him a Horror Icon.”
