Lawrence Wilde is a composer and multimedia artist whose music has been commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, JACK Quartet, and Sō Percussion, and performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Tanglewood. He is Junior Professor of Composition and Music Theory in Postdigital Educational Spaces at the University of Siegen. He holds degrees from Juilliard and Princeton University.
Lawrence Wilde is a composer, multimedia artist, educator, and researcher. Described by The New York Times as “passionate and dramatically contoured,” his music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, JACK Quartet, Sō Percussion, Tesla Quartet, the Berlin Academy of American Music, Ensemble Mise-En, and Variant 6, and presented at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Tanglewood, Aspen, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
Wilde is Junior Professor of Composition and Music Theory in Postdigital Educational Spaces at the University of Siegen, where he directs the Studio for Postdigital Creativity Research (Studio für postdigitale Kreativitätsforschung, SpK), the Postdigital Laptop Ensemble (PULSE) and teaches composition, music theory and music technology. His artistic research addresses sound, technology, and sustainability under the postdigital condition. He is a member of the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts and of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research at FRIAS, Freiburg. He holds a B.M. from The Juilliard School and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University.
Lawrence Wilde is a composer, multimedia artist, educator, and researcher whose work explores the entanglement of sound, technology, and sustainability. Described by The New York Times as “passionate and dramatically contoured,” his music has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, JACK Quartet, Sō Percussion, Tesla Quartet, the Berlin Academy of American Music (BAAM), Ensemble Mise-En, ÆON Ensemble, and Variant 6. His works have been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Bang on a Can Music Festival, and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical.
Wilde is Junior Professor of Composition and Music Theory in Postdigital Educational Spaces at the University of Siegen, where he directs the Studio for Postdigital Creativity Research (Studio für postdigitale Kreativitätsforschung, SpK), the Postdigital Laptop Ensemble (PULSE) and teaches composition, music theory and music technology. His artistic research centres on the postdigital condition — the premise that digital and analogue practices are deeply intertwined — and asks how composition can contribute to sustainable practices in the arts and education. His works regularly combine digital and analogue elements, treating technology as an integral part of the creative process. That inquiry extends beyond sound to the tools that make it: software, hardware, and the energy they consume.
In 2015, Wilde co-founded the Music for a Sustainable Planet Concert Series in New York City in partnership with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Combining concerts with conferences in NYC, the initiative presents new multimedia works at the intersection of scientific research, music, and sustainability in support of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. Its inaugural event formed part of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development, held alongside the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit at which the 2030 Agenda was adopted.
Wilde is a member of the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. He has held research and teaching fellowships at Princeton University and The Juilliard School, and composition fellowships at Tanglewood, Aspen, and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and a Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University.