Screen Music / Live Presentation / Unfinished Event
Future Ruins
Announced May 14, 2025 / Canceled October 3, 2025
Future Ruins was announced as a one-day Los Angeles festival where composers would perform music written for film, television, and games. Organizers canceled the event before its scheduled November 8, 2025 date.
- Event status
- Canceled
- Planned date
- November 8, 2025
- Planned location
- Los Angeles
- Archive class
- Special event / Score history
Event concept
The Music Tells the Story
Live screen music
The announced program placed composers onstage to perform their film, television, and game music live.
Curatorial connection
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were announced alongside John Carpenter, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Questlove, and other screen composers.
Planned form
The first edition was scheduled for November 8, 2025 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.
Event status
Organizers canceled Future Ruins on October 3, 2025. No performance took place.
Final status
Canceled Before the Scheduled Date
October 3, 2025
Organizers announced that Future Ruins would not move forward that year, citing logistical challenges and complications that prevented the event from being realized as intended.
No completed performance
The planned November date remains part of the historical record, but it is labeled as not held. Promotional material documents intent, not an event that occurred.
Two timeline states
The Timeline records the May announcement and the October cancellation separately so the archive does not collapse a changing public status into one misleading date.
Source record
The official announcement establishes the concept and scheduled date. The official event account and contemporary reporting preserve the later cancellation.
Related pages
Scores, People, and Canceled Projects
Trent Reznor
Read about Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails work and film-score partnership with Atticus Ross.
Atticus Ross
Read about Ross’s work with Nine Inch Nails and his scores with Reznor.
Unreleased projects
See other announced, unfinished, and canceled projects, with their public status clearly identified.