Lauge Dideriksen

Curriculum Vitae

(Letzte Aktualisierung: Mai 2025)

Lauge Dideriksen, BA MA

Since 2023, my research has been focused on time in music and music in time, and particularly on the notion of musical and rhythmical weight. By bringing findings from perceptual, neurological, and ethnomusicological studies of music into dialogue with ideas from philosophy, cognitive science, and music theory, I examine the functions and processes that make some moments of musical time more salient than others. Before that, a large part of my work was focused on transcribing archival recordings, with particular emphasis on fiddle music from Poland, Austria, and Belarus. In addition to my academic work, I play the fiddle and have played for dance since the age of nine.

 

Education

 

2022–2025:

MA in Ethnomusicology at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Thesis, The Verticality of Time, or, an Initial Investigation of Rhythmic Weight, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Ulrich Morgenstern (graduated with distinction).

 

2016–2019:

BA in Composition at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Richard Barrett, Yannis Kyriakides, Cornelis de Bondt, and Jan van der Putte.

 

2016–2019:

Conducting studies with Lucas Vis.

 

2015–2016:

Composition studies at Aarhus MGK with Niels Rønsholdt (graduated with distinction).

 

2014–2016:

Conducting studies with a.o. Michael Delchev.

 

2013–2015:

Jazz violin studies at Aarhus MGK with ao. Kristoffer Dolatko and Thomas Sejthen.

 

 

Selected Voluntary Professional Positions

 

2016–2021:

Chairman of UNM DK—Young Nordic Music Days Denmark (trans-Nordic festival organisation for young composers supported by major arts funds). Roles included PR and social media, fundraising, and various administrative tasks. I also helped found the organisation’s archive.

 

2017–2019:

Co-organiser of and moderator at RCC—Research Concert Cycle at Studio Loos, Den Haag, The Netherlands (artist-run platform for artistic research and alternative performance practices). Roles included moderating debates and conducting stage-interviews, as well as administration, production, and curation.

 

2015–2018

Board member of AUT in Aarhus, Denmark (local and national music organisation supported by major arts funds). Roles included curating and producing concerts, as well as fundraising.

 

 

Selected Teaching and Mentoring Experience

 

18.–22.8.2023

Faculty for traditional dance at the annual summer course of the Austrian Folk Dance Association (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Volkstanz).

 

2016–present

Musician for various courses in traditional and improvised folk dance at a.o. Wiener Volksliedwerk and Schrammel.Klang.Festival.

 

12.–15.11.2019

Faculty for violin at PipenBockTreffen (DE).

 

 

 

Selected Fieldwork

 

2020–(ongoing)

Regular fieldwork in Poland, including both documentary and participatory modalities in urban and rural contexts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, parts of this fieldwork was conducted online.

 

2023–(ongoing)

Collecting, cataloguing, and storing materials for a community archive for the Viennese balfolk-community with the dual goal of preserving the community’s history and increasing community sustainability and resilience by documenting organisational know-how. This work is carried out in collaboration with members of the community.

 

7.–12.7.2023

Experiment in “visual ethnomusicology” at the festival Les Volcaniques in Saint-Bonnet-prés-Riom, FR.

 

7.–11.6.2023

Documentary fieldwork in Amras, Innsbruck for the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

 

12.–18.5.2023

Documentary fieldwork in the Suiti-region of Latvia for the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

 

 

Selected Lectures and Conferences

21.8.2023

Invited Speaker: So What is Ethnomusicology, Anyway?. Annual summer course of the Austrian Folk Dance Association (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Volkstanz), Gmunden, AT.

29.4.2023

Invited speaker: Fiddle and Foot—A Preliminary Look at Rhythmic Coordination in Recordings of Landler. Analytische Zugänge zur Volksmusik heute (Analytical Approaches to Traditional Music Today), Vienna, AT.

15.4.2023

Paper: Ways of Writing Time—Notational Strategies for the Transcription of Fiddle Music from Central Poland. IX Krajowe Seminarium Etnomuzykologiczne UTRWALIĆ TRADYCJĘ. DŹWIĘK–SŁOWO–RUCH–OBRAZ (9th National Ethnomusicological Seminar), Warsaw, PL.

12.11.2022

Paper: Mapping an Idiomatic Anatomy—Variation and Instrumentalism in the Playing of Józef Zaraś. Motif-Centricity and Micro-Variation in Traditional Music, mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT.

4.4.2022

Guest lecture: Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation. Institut für Volksmusikforschung
und Ethnomusikologie, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT.

30.09.2021

Paper: Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation. European Voices VI: Singing, Song, and Sound. Vienna, AT.

 

Awards

 

2019

Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Talentlegat for composition.

 

 

Publications

 

Forthcoming

Dideriksen, Lauge. forthcoming. ‘Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation’. In European Voices VI—Singing, Song, and Sound, edited by Ardian Ahmedaja. European Voices, 6. Vienna: Böhlau.

 

 

Journalism

 

03.2025

Zum Geburtstag eines Jodelkriegers. Portrait of fiddler and musicologist Hermann Fritz for the Austrian print magazine Bockkeller.

 

27.12.2023

Playing for Dance. Radio programme for the Austrian broadcaster Radio Orange.

 

25.08.2023

“People come for the music, but come back for the food!”. Picture essay for the Danish online magazine Resonator.

 

10.08.2023

“I Want to Bourrée Bourrée”. Picture essay for the Danish online magazine Resonator.