email: lin@mdw.ac.at
Education
2015 PhD Degree on October 7, 2015 from the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with distinction.
Dissertation: Die Musik im Leben der Tao (taiwanesische indigene Volksgruppe): Tradition and Innovation/ Music in the Life of the Tao (Taiwanese indigenous ethnic Group): Tradition and Innovation. Supervisors: a.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Hemetek and Prof. Dr. Svanibor Pettan.
11/2014 Training course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – Transculturality in Music Education.
2005-2007 Postgraduate studies in Chamber Music with Prof. Johannes Meissl, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
2004-2007 Composition studies with Prof. Axel Seidlmann and Prof. Herbert Lauermann, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
1998-2006 Viola Performance studies with Prof. Wolfgang Klos, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Magister Artium in Viola Performance with distinction on 30 March 2006 at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Scholarly Employments
Since 10/2021 Senior Artistic Researcher at the Artistic Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
10/2020 – 09/ Lecturer and Supervisor in the Doctoral Programme in Artistic Research at the Artistic Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
09/2018 – 09/2021 Co-Project-Leader (together with Univ.-Prof. Johannes Kretz) of the PEEK-Project Creative (Mis)Understandings, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (fwf), at the Department of Composition, Electro-Acoustics and Tonmeister Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
03/2018 – 09/2021 Research Fellow (post-doc, 20%) in Artistic Research at the Department of Composition, Electro-Acoustics and Tonmeister Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Since 03/2018 Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Musicology, University of Vienna
10/2017 – 02/2018 Adjunct Lecturer for Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in South-East Asianat the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
08/2017 – 07/2018 Co-Project-Leader (together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Cheng-Hsien Yang) of the Project Traditional Knowledge and Practice: The First Phase of Information Collection (傳統知識與實踐資料徵集委託第一期計畫), funded by the Section of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (台灣文化部文化資產局)
04/2016 – 09/2017 Research Fellow (post-doc) in the research project Bi-/Multimusicality at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (half-time contract; details see)
08/2015 – 06/2017 Research Fellow (pre-doc) in the research project Sparkling Science – Musik ohne Grenzen (Music without Borders) (third party project funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy) at the Franz Schubert Department and Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (half-time contract; details see)
2014 – 2016 Music Director/Scholarly Consultant (in Ethnomusicology) and of an artistic project Maataw – the Floating Island, directed by the Formosa Indigenous Dance Foundation of Culture and Arts in Taiwan（Details). This project was nominated for the Taiwanese TaiHsin Art Award for socially relevant interdisciplinary art projects in March 2016
Since 10/2013 Adjunct Lecturer for Composition Workshop: Ethnomusicology at the Department of Composition, Electro-Acoustics and Tonmeister Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Scholarly, Artistic and Educational Initiatives (Selected)
Since 10/2014 Initiator and Organizer of the international interdisciplinary project Confusing Inspiration with students and lecturers from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (partner institutions: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi in Turkey, Hochschule Luzern in Switzerland, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia, and Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary)
Since 2014 Initiator, Lecturer and Organizer of the intercultural and interdisciplinary Summer School for children and youth iKultLab
2014 – 2016 Music Director and Violist at the dance theatre production Maataw, together with Formosa Indigenous Dance Foundation of Culture and Arts in Taiwan, Premiere on 24, 25 and 26 January 2016 (Details see the website). This project was nominated for the Taiwanese TaiHsin Art Award for socially relevant interdisciplinary art projects in March 2016.
2014 Initiator and Coordinator of the concert project based on applied ethnomusicology: Soundscape–Island of Human Beings, premiere on 30 September 2014 at Taiwan National Theatre in Taipei (Program). This project was nominated for the Taiwanese TaiHsin Art Award for socially relevant interdisciplinary art projects in November 2014.
2012 – 2015 Artistic Director of the association Ponte della Musica in Hong Kong
2011 – 2014 Member of the British free-improvisation group Sonnamble and 2PM in the Forest
Since 2010 Initiator and Co-Curator of the aNOther Festival–an intercultural and interdisciplinary festival for visual and performing arts
2009 – 2019 Violist and Bass-synthesizer player of the Viennese rock band Neuschnee
2006 – 2012 Violist of Hibiki Quartett
04/2006 Ethnomusicological editor, organizer, curator and performer for Prof. Tran Quang Hai’s (CNRS and Musée de l’Homme, Paris); organizing his lectures at Vienna Private University; curating for his concert EigenSpace in Vienna (18-22 April 2006).
2001 – 2004 Violist of Cordes Quartett Wien
2005 – 2010 Initiator and Manager for the orchestra Schloss Kammerphilharmonie Wien for the annual tour in China
1992 – 2009 Diverse concerts and performances as soloist, chamber music and orchestra player in USA, Europe and Asia.
Scholarly Networks
Since 02/2020 Board Member at the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music
Since 05/2017 – 11/2021 Board member of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) Austrian National Committee
Since 05/2017 Secretary of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology.
12/2016 – 06/2020 Member of the Work Group for Future Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
07/2016 – 06/2017 Vice-President of EMuK (Ethnomusicological Culture Association).
Research Specialisations
- Artistic Research
- Applied Ethnomusicology
- Postcolonial Studies and Strategies toward Decolonization
- Auditive Ontologies
- Musics of Indigenous Peoples
- Music and Minorities
- Bi-Musicality
Research Projects and Initiatives
Co-Project-Leader (together with a.o.Univ.-Prof. Johannes Kretz) at the Department of Composition, Electro-Acoustics and Tonmeister Education of mdw, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (fwf – PEEK Programme) WEB
Traditional Knowledge and Practice: The First Phase of Information Collection 傳統知識與實踐資料徵集委託第一期計畫 (2017 – 2018)
Co-Project-Leader (together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Cheng-Hsien Yang), funded by the Section of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (台灣文化部文化資產局)
Bi-Musicality (2016 – 2017) in the frame of Changing mdw
Research Fellow, led by a.o.Univ.-Prof. Ursula Hemetek at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of mdw WEB
Sparkling Science – Music without Borders (2015 – 2017)
Research Fellow, led by Univ.-Prof. Walter Wretschitsch at the Franz Schubert Department and Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of mdw, funded by BMWFW WEB
Confusing Inspiration (since 2014)
Initiator and Organizer of the international project in artistic research with students and lecturers from the mdw (partner institutions: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi in Turkey, Hochschule Luzern in Switzerland, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia, and Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary)
iKultLab (since 2014)
Initiator, Lecturer and Organizer, an intercultural and interdisciplinary Summer School for children and youth. WEB
aNOther Festival (since 2010)
Initiator and Co-Curator, an intercultural and interdisciplinary festival for visual and performing arts. WEB
Publications
Monograph
2021 Lieder, Geister und Tabus: zum soziokulturellen Wandel der Musiktradition bei den Tao in Taiwan [Songs, Spirits and Taboos: On the Socio-Cultural Change in the Musical Tradition of the Tao in Taiwan]. Bielerfeld: transcript Verlag
2015 Die Musik im Leben der Tao (taiwanesische indigene Volksgruppe): Tradition und Innovation [Music in the Life of the Tao Taiwanese Indigenous Ethnic Group): Tradition and Innovation]. Dissertation at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Editorship
2017 Sieben Blätter und ein Stein: das Märchen von Märchen [Seven Leaves and One Stone: the Tale of Fairy Tales] with 2CDs. Weitra: Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz
Reviewed by Malmberg, Isolde (2017). Review: Seven Leaves and one Stone, MDW-(WEB)MAGAZINE and by Kellermann, Kerstin in online magazine SKUG
In Press Dialogues in Applied Ethnomusicology: Practices, Policies and Challenges (HerausgeberInnen: Huib Schippers, Wei-Ya Lin und Boyu Zhang). Beijing: Central Conservatory of Music Press.
Report of Research Projects
2017 Final Report of Sparkling Science Project Music without Borders. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Franz Schubert Department and Department of Folk Musik Research and Ethnomusicology. Quelle
2017 Final Report of Research Project Bi-/Multimusicality. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Franz Schubert Department and Department of Folk Musik Research and Ethnomusicology. Quelle
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2021 Practising Theories by Listening to Songs Related to the Tao (an indigenous ethnic group of Taiwan). In Terada Yoshitaka und Ursula Hemetek (editors): Music and Minorities (tent. Title). National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan.
2021 Creative (Mis)understandings: A Methodology of Inspiration. In Therese Kaufmann, Doris Ingrisch, Tasos Zembylas, Annegret Huber, Johannes Kretz (editors): Knowing in Performing. Artistic Research in Music and the Performing Arts. Bielederfeld: transcript, 111–129 (Co-Autor: Kretz, Johannes).
2019 „Raus aus dem Elfenbeinturm!“ – Projekte in angewandter Ethnomusikologie mit der indigenen Gruppe Tao (Taiwan). Die Musikforschung 4/2019, 332–344.
2017 Representing Musical Identities of Children with Migrant Background – An Example from the Research Project Music without Borders. Journal Musicologist Vol.1, 32–51.
2016 Maataw – the Floating Island: Performing Social and Ecological Change among Tao People. Musicological Annual L2/II, Ljubljana University Press, 85-101.
2016 達悟族中的音樂與其禁忌文化的關聯性 (The Relationship between Music und Taboos in the Society of the Tao). 台灣原住民研究論叢第十九期 (Taiwan Indigenous Studies Review), 43–68.
2015 The Relationship between the Practices of Traditional Singing and Church Hymns in the Society of the Tao (an indigenous ethnic group of Taiwan). In Pal Richter und Lujza Tari (editors): Multipart Music: Individuals and Educated People in Traditional Multipart Music Practices. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities HAS, 416–434.
2013 The Relationship between Music and Taboos in the Society of the Tao (An Indigenous Ethnic Group of Taiwan). Journal of Creative Communications 8(1), 45–64.
Coming Publications
Music without Borders: conducting music education through ethnomusicology in Austria. In Huib Schippers, Wei-Ya Lin und Boyu Zhang (editors): Dialogues in Applied Ethnomusicology: Practices, Policies and Challenges. Beijing: Central Conservatory of Music Press.
Academic Publications
2019 Performing Artistic Research – Decolonizing Academia. In Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda (ed.): Symposium Proceedings Colombo, 179–190 (Co-Autor: Kretz, Johannes). Quelle
2018 ’Bei uns gibt es keine sogenannte Musik, wir mianoanood (singen)!’ – Eine Studie zur Erforschung des auditiven Wissens der Tao. In Bernd Brabec de Mori und Martin Winter (ed.): Auditive Wissenskulturen. Wiesbaden: Springer SV Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 343–360.
2018 Bi-/Multimusikalität: Potenziale der musikalischen Vielfalt an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. In: Cornelia Szabo-Knotik, Anita Mayer-Hirzberger (ed.): ANKLAENGE 2017. Be/Spiegelungen. Die Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien als kulturvermittelnde bzw. -schaffende Institution im Kontext der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte. (Anklaenge – Wiener Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft). Wien: Hollitzer 2018, 143–159.
2016 探討如何保護原住民傳統智慧: 以加拿大與澳大利亞的經驗為例 (Discussion about the Protection of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge: Examples from Canada and Australia). Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies Vol. 8, 21–47.
2015 Sound Articulation – from Ethnomusicology about Taiwanese Aborigines to Contemporary Composition. In Folclor Si Postfolclor In Contemporaneitate, Materiale Conferintei internationale 11-12 decembrie 2014. Academia de Muzica, Teatru si Arte Plastice, Chisinau, 38–45 (Co-Autor: Kretz, Johannes).
2013 Mikarayag – Clapping and Singing Gathering of the Tao: Individual Creativity within the Collective Act. In Ardian Ahmedaja (ed.): Local and Global Understandings of Creativities. Multipart music making and the construction of ideas, contexts and contents. CD and DVD with audiovisual examples included. Newcastle u.T.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 232–249.
2012 Digital Archive of the Taiwan Music Institute (國立傳統藝術中心台灣音樂館), Website Review in Yearbook for Traditional Music 44, 230–231.
2011 序－默默傳承達悟傳統社會文化的蘭嶼樹人 (Preface). In Chou Tsung-Ching (ed.): 雅美族歌謠：情歌與拍手歌／古謠 (Yami Songs: Love Songs and Mikarayag/ Old Songs), 2 Books., Hsin-Chu: Chiaotung University Press, 9–11.
2011 Mehrspur-Aufnahmen in der Feldforschung – Obvious Engineering? Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2, 91–127 (Co-Autor: Schöpf, Jürgen)
2011 Mikarayag – Mehrstimmiger Gesang der Tao. Feldforschungsbericht von der Orchideeninsel, Taiwan 2010. Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2, 272–287.
2008 Gedanken zu Kunst, Gesellschaft und Vermischung. Ein Beitrag für das Programmheft des Festivals Wien Modern 2008, 151.
2006 Die Musik und das Leben der taiwanesischen Ureinwohner-Volksgruppe Tao (Yami). Master Thesis at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
