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Trent Reznor Sets Line-Up For Inaugural Future Ruins Festival Spotlighting Film & TV Score Composers


Trent Reznor has set the lineup for November's inaugural Future Ruins Festival spotlighting the work of award-winning film and TV composers.

According to a release, the event that will have some of the “world’s most influential film and television composers step[ping] out from behind the screen and onto the stage” will take place on three stages and feature performances from Danny Elfman ( Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure), John Carpenter ( Halloween, The Thing), Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein ( Stranger Things, Spheres), Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh ( The Royal Tennenbaums, Cocaine Bear) and the Roots’ Questlove, who will perform the score compositions of late soul icon Curtis Mayfield. Among the other acts on the bill are: Cristobal Tapia de Veer ( Babygirl, The White Lotus), Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow ( Ex Machina, Black Mirror), Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin ( Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead), Hildur Guðnadóttir ( Joker, Women Talking), a performance of Howard Shore’s score for David Cronenberg’s Crash, Isobel Waller-Bridge ( Fleabag, Sweetpea), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe ( Candyman, Seeds), Tamar-Kali ( Mudbound, Shirley), Terence Blanchard ( Malcolm X, Inside Man) and Volker Bertelman (aka Hauschka) ( All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave). In the meantime, NIN will be on the road for their 2025 Peel It Back arena tour, which is slated to launch on kick off on June 15 in Dublin and hit Manchester, London, Germany, Belgium, Milan and 10 more European cities before hopping over to North America for shows in Oakland (August 6), as well as Vancouver, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, New York, Nashville and Phonenix before winding down on Sept. 19 in Los Angeles.

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