9 Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have introduced their plans for a brand new music pageant devoted to showcasing a number of the movie world’s most acclaimed soundtrack composers.
Booked into the Los Angeles Equestrian Middle 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 levels, a lot of these on the line-up performing their scores stay for the very first time.
“It’s about giving people who find themselves, actually, the most effective on this planet at taking audiences on an emotional journey through music the chance to inform new tales in an fascinating stay setting,” Trent Reznor says in a press release.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This can be a stacked lineup of visionaries doing one thing you won’t see once more.”
Within the press assertion saying the one-day occasion, the organisers add, “Every artist is inspired to take huge swings and reimagine their work for a stay viewers. Starting from digital units and stay bands to orchestral performances, followers have the possibility to expertise stay debuts from composers who hardly ever seem onstage.”
Tickets go on sale on Might 21 at 12PM Pacific Time, right here.
The NIN duo are among the many most revered, and adorned, movie soundtrack composers of the trendy period, having gained two Oscars (Finest Unique 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 approach for me to really feel very important, to really feel challenged.”
“Over the past 10 years or so, I’ve been a bit disillusioned by widespread music,” he admitted. “As I become older, some issues really feel much less relatable to me. The enterprise sucks. The best way folks devour music will not be as inspiring because it was once, it’s marginalized in a variety of methods. Scoring has supplied a approach for me to really feel very important, to really feel challenged.”
Reznor went on to admit that he initially thought of the thought of scoring movie “terrifying”, however says that working with director David Fincher on The Social Community taught him and Ross necessary classes.
“We may nonetheless be us,” says Reznor, “and we may nonetheless apply the identical issues we’d do writing a track, simply shifting round how we take 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 may take our association abilities and the identical issues that we faucet into emotionally in 9 Inch Nails into one other setting. Nevertheless 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 undertaking, which we’re engaged on now,” he mentioned. “We’re able to be again within the driver’s seat.”