Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist with concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work has been presented by Artists Space, Cafe OTO, Default Den Haag, Issue Project Room, Liverpool Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Non-Event, Pilar Brussels, Pioneer Works, Pitchfork, Triple Canopy, and Wire Magazine, among others. His prolific recorded output can be found on Hibari, Marginal Frequency, Party Perfect, Tokinogake, Infant Tree, and Madacy Jazz, his central digital & print imprint co-operated with Sam Sfirri since 2014. He has also provided soundtracks to several features and shorts by the Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina, including 88:88 (2015), Inventing the Future (2020), He Thought He Died (2023), and Gangsterism (2025).
Madacy Jazz (2014-present)
co-operated imprint with Sam Sfirri
Live Unison and Unison Continued (with Sam Weinberg) (Stern Records, forthcoming)
unprompted trio movement or some timbre transfer sequences (Tutorial Island, 2025)
My Own Private "Synthesis by Finite Juxtaposed Elements" (Nina Protocol, 2025)
Two pieces for fixed media pitched instruments voice zero build (Party Perfect!!!, 2024)
SYLVESTER ARIAS PLUS TWO (tokinogake, 2024)
Complex envelope functions from nonlinear i/o and feature extraction etc. (split with Luciano Maggiore) (Infant Tree, 2024)
Monophonic Forms of Glissandi and Tempo Modulation (Nina Protocol, 2023)
Frequency-to-voltage converter, window comparator, dynamic stochastic synthesis (Trilobite #5, 2022)
Total Orderings for FLEA (Flea, 2022)
Untitled antiphonal sequence for variable portamenti and twelve instruments (Nina Protocol, 2021)
Untitled discrete arbitrary input functions—polyphony—for harpsichord after Brianna and Kassidy (Lateral Addition, 2021)
Second-Order Aliasing Artifact Synthesis and The Problem of The Many
(Pulsar.scramble vol. 2, $ pwgen 20, 2020)
CODE573 (CO-DEPENDENT, 2019)
Derrison (with Sam Sfirri) (Marginal Frequency, 2017)
KIERAN IN A HOLE (hibari music, 2017)
Music and Pyrrhonism Without Us (Triple Canopy, 2014)
BGM MNAR (futow, 2014)
Suspended (of) the formal capacity to sample and thereby preserve such samples according to the conditions from which they appeared (LUMA Foundation, 2014)
Plays / For Theatre (bas-books, 2011)
Live Cams (GPDF001) (Gauss PDF, 2010)
And Death I Think Is No Parenthesis (Tigerasylum, 2008)