Sanford Hinderlie has performed his music compositions, both acoustic and electronic, throughout the world, including concerts, universities and festivals in the Far East, the Republic of Georgia, the Middle East, Europe and throughout the United States. He has composed for television, radio, and films, including scoring music for several public television documentaries, feature-length movies, commercials, and AAA travel videos. The director, composer and electronic engineer of SYNTHESIS 2000 and now SYNTHESIS 2020 is known as a musical demonstrator and performer of computer and electronic music.

Hinderlie studied composition at Washington State University, the University of North Texas and the University of Southern California. While working on his Masters of Music Composition at North Texas from 1979-1981, Martin Mailman was his main composition professor for acoustic music. Utilizing a Moog 55 and a Synclavier as learning tools, Hinderlie then studied electronic music with Merrill Ellis and Larry Austin. Also while at North Texas, he performed with the synthesizer jazz fusion group The Zebras directed by Dan Haerle in 1980-81, playing an Arp Odyssey synthesizer and Fender Rhodes electric piano. He pursued further graduate work in composition and film scoring at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In 1982 he won the Delius Composition Contest, and in 1986, the Composition Competition hosted by the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans.

In the early 1980s, Hinderlie was musical director of Richard Pierce & Co., a multimedia work-in-progress, a performance art ensemble based in New Orleans. He then formed the musical ensemble SYNTHESIS 2000: An Electronic Odyssey, utilizing live electro-acoustic music with manipulation of sound before the advent of MIDI. In 1989 and 1991, Hinderlie traveled to the former Soviet Union performing concerts and providing workshop and demonstrations utilizing synthesizers and computers at the Tbilisi Conservatory of Music in the Republic of Georgia. Performances of his works include the Elisabeth Conservatory in Hiroshima, Japan; the Electronic Music Plus Festivals in Kansas City, Austin and Knoxville; New Music America, Los Angeles; the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music United States; public television projects in conjunction with the New Orleans Public Schools; several concerts at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; the New Orleans Institute for the Performing Arts; regional and national College Music Society conferences; the Loyola University New Orleans Montage series; and performances at universities and festivals throughout the country.