Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist working in monophonic experimental music: studies in intermittently articulated sliding pitch and cross-rhythmic, chromatic interpretations of jazz standards—work audiences often find unexpectedly funny. Kieran's performances include Artists Space (US), Cafe OTO (UK), Default (NL), Ftarri (JP), Issue Project Room (US), LUMA Foundation (CH), MoMA (US), Pilar (BE), Pioneer Works (US), Reception (IE), The Tranzac (CA), Triple Canopy (US), and You and Me Festival (CN), alongside talks and masterclasses at institutions internationally. His work has been featured in Chicago Reader, HTMLGiant, Jacket2, Pitchfork, and Wire Magazine. He has released dozens of albums internationally on independent labels, including through Madacy Jazz, his own imprint co-founded in 2014 with Sam Sfirri, and has scored several features and shorts by Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina, most recently Gangsterism (2025).