Laure M. Hiendl

Laure M. Hiendl (*1986) is a composer based in Vienna who explores the structural and media dynamics of circulation-driven capitalism, examining topics such as digitality, acceleration, and demediatization, and their aesthetic impact on contemporary art music. He often explores sampling, particularly of scores, to create new intertextual constellations from the vast digital music archives. The concept of the “animated still life” (Lauren Berlant) is central to his aesthetic, reflecting the immediacy and frenetic stasis of the current media landscape. 

Hiendl’s compositions have been showcased at numerous festivals, including MaerzMusik, ECLAT, Ultraschall, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn and Sonic Matter Zurich. His collaborative practice involves exchanges with artists across generations and disciplines, such as singer Elaine Mitchener and choreographer July Weber. His music has been performed by renowned ensembles like JACK Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Garage, NeoQuartet, Yarn/Wire, Ekmeles, Ensemble NAMES and Ensemble KNM Berlin, with whom he has a long-standing collaboration. In 2022, Hiendl co-founded the Music Installations Nuremberg festival with Bastian Zimmermann, transforming music into performative spatial art, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Hiendl’s accolades include the Rome Prize from the German Academy Villa Massimo, the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart, and multiple commissions from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. 

Hiendl studied with Beat Furrer and Roger Reynolds, earning his doctorate from Columbia University with George E. Lewis on Queer Composition. He completed his habilitation at the Mozarteum University Salzburg on Composition and Digitality, where he now serves as University Professor and Head of the Department of Composition and Music Theory. 

As of October 2025