Laure M. Hiendl

Laure M. Hiendl is a University Professor and Head of the Department of Composition & Music Theory at Mozarteum University Salzburg's School of Music & Art Education. An active Vienna-based composer, his work critically examines digital capitalism's impact on contemporary art music through structural and medial dynamics.

His academic credentials include:

• Doctorate from Columbia University (dissertation: 'Queer Composition' supervised by George E. Lewis)
• Habilitation at Mozarteum University Salzburg ('Composition and Digitality')

Hiendl's research pioneers score sampling techniques to construct intertextual networks from digital music archives, embodying Lauren Berlant's 'animated still life' concept to capture media landscape stasis. His work interrogates digitality, acceleration, and demediatization within circulation-forward capitalism.

Major accolades include:

• Rome Prize from the German Academy Villa Massimo
• Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart

Supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation commissions, Hiendl collaborates with ensembles like JACK Quartet and Ensemble KNM Berlin. He co-founded the Music Installations Nuremberg festival in 2022, transforming music into spatial art through German Federal Cultural Foundation-backed projects with artists including Elaine Mitchener and July Weber.