Laure M. Hiendl (*1986) is a composer and conductor based in Berlin who delves into the structural and medial dynamics of digital culture, acceleration, and demediatization—and their aesthetic impacts on acoustic art music in the contemporary. His compositions often explore sampling, particularly of scores, to craft 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 and series, including MaerzMusik, ECLAT, Ultraschall, Musik der Zeit, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn and Sonic Matter Zurich and have been performed by orchestras like the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, JACK Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Garage, NeoQuartet, Yarn/Wire, Ekmeles and Ensemble KNM Berlin, with whom he has a long-standing collaboration. 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.
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. He studied piano (with Catherine Vickers), orchestra conducting (with Wojciech Rajski) and composition (with Beat Furrer) at the Hochschule in Frankfurt. He continued composition studies at UC San Diego (with Roger Reynolds), earning his doctorate from Columbia University New York (with George E. Lewis). He is currently professor for composition at the University Mozarteum Salzburg.