9 Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have introduced their plans for a brand new music pageant devoted to showcasing among the movie world’s most acclaimed soundtrack composers.
Booked into the Los Angeles Equestrian Heart for November 8, the invoice for the inaugural Future Ruins pageant will see Reznor and Ross, John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, Italian progressive rock legends Goblin, British TV and movie composers Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and extra performing throughout three phases, a lot of these on the line-up performing their scores reside for the very first time.
“It’s about giving people who find themselves, actually, one of the best on the earth at taking audiences on an emotional journey by way of music the chance to inform new tales in an attention-grabbing reside setting,” Trent Reznor says in an announcement.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. It is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing one thing you may not see once more.”
Within the press assertion asserting the one-day occasion, the organisers add, “Every artist is inspired to take massive swings and reimagine their work for a reside viewers. Starting from digital units and reside bands to orchestral performances, followers have the possibility to expertise reside debuts from composers who not often seem onstage.”
Tickets go on sale on Could 21 at 12PM Pacific Time, right here.
The NIN duo are among the many most revered, and embellished, movie soundtrack composers of the trendy period, having gained two Oscars (Finest Authentic Rating for 2010’s The Social Community and 2020’s Soul), along with a number of Baftas, Grammys, Golden Globe Awards and Emmy Awards for his or her spectacular catalogue.
In a 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reznor acknowledged, “Scoring has supplied a means for me to really feel important, to really feel challenged.”
“During the last 10 years or so, I’ve been a bit disillusioned by widespread music,” he admitted. “As I grow old, some issues really feel much less relatable to me. The enterprise sucks. The best way individuals devour music isn’t as inspiring because it was once, it’s marginalized in a number of methods. Scoring has supplied a means for me to really feel important, to really feel challenged.”
Reznor went on to admit that he initially thought-about the thought of scoring movie “terrifying”, however says that working with director David Fincher on The Social Community taught him and Ross vital classes.
“We might nonetheless be us,” says Reznor, “and we might nonetheless apply the identical issues we might do writing a tune, simply shifting round how we have a look at it – the place the script and the imaginative and prescient of the director and the scene and setting are the lyrics, and we might take our association expertise and the identical issues that we faucet into emotionally in 9 Inch Nails into one other setting. However it took a minute for us to know that, a number of months of waking up at 4 within the morning and sweating about, What did we get ourselves into?”
Reznor additionally acknowledged that having labored on seven movie scores for the reason that final NIN album emerged, he has been impressed to return to creating music for his band.
“We’re taking the inspiration we’ve garnered and funneling it right into a 9 Inch Nails challenge, which we’re engaged on now,” he mentioned. “We’re able to be again within the driver’s seat.”