Julia Tieke works with and around text and sound. She is affiliated with the radio arts department of Deutschlandfunk Kultur, where she has been in charge of the daily ultra-short experimental format “Wurfsendung” since 2007. Julia received a degree in “Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Communication” from the University of Hildesheim in 2002 and currently attends a bachelor’s degree programme at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin. Her recent projects include the co-curation of digging deep, crossing far in India, Germany and Pakistan (2015-2017); the 12-channel audio installation Achtung, Aufnahme! (2016–2017) at silent green, commissioned by HWK, Berlin; research on the First Cairo Congress of Arab Music in 1932, so far resulting in two radio features, an installation for the exhibition `32: The Rescore in Sharjah, UAE, and a Club Transmediale talk (2019/20); the on-site and online project Karachi Beach Radio (with Yaminay Chaudhri, ongoing), and the recent neighborhood podcast Reuterrundfunk.