Daniyal Ahmed is a musician and anthropologist from Pakistan. He teaches at the Habib University in Karachi. As a researcher, he has a wide range of interests in the sonic cultures of South Asia including music and migration, sound and subjectivity. He is also co-founder of Karachi Community Radio (KCR), through which he curates, hosts, and produces a variety of experimental audio-visual shows and broad-based artistic collaborations. As a multi-instrumentalist, he plays in a number of formations; including his own transnational music project, Taranum.