Kieran Daly is an American composer with a concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work focuses on a primarily performance-based, first-principles approach using iterative processes, sliding timbres, and pulse salience as formal determinants. Some of his prolific output has been presented by Cafe OTO, CHIMEFest, Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theatre, Default Den Haag, Hibari Music, Infant Tree, Issue Project Room, Madacy Jazz, Museum of Modern Art, Poetry Project, Pilar Brussels, Pioneer Works, Pitchfork, Segue Foundation, Triple Canopy, and Wire Magazine. Since 2015, he has soundtracked several features and shorts by Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
January 21 • Toronto • Wenona Lodge
January 23 • Toronto • Tranzac Club
January 24 • Toronto • Masterclass at University of Toronto
March 06 • Brussels • Pilar
March 07 • Brussels • Kiosk Radio
March 08 • The Hague • default#23 at 3345
March 09 • Glasgow • The Old Hairdressers
March 11 • Dublin • Anseo
March 12 • Manchester • Ascension Church Hulme
March 13 • Leeds • Wharf Chambers
March 16 • London • Cafe OTO
September 11 • Chicago • apartment.gallery • video
September 14 • New York • Pianos
September 15 • New York • Ear Inn (with Sam Weinberg)
September 17 • Brooklyn • Lava Club • review
September 21 • Chicago • Torn Light Records
North American Tour with Ben Bennett
November 05 • Baltimore • Red Room
November 06 • Hartford • Trinity College Chapel
November 07 • Greenfield • Looky Here
November 08 • Montreal • TBA
November 09 • Portland • Open Systems Studios
November 10 • Boston • Non-Event at Civic Center Pavilion
November 11 • Kingston • Tubby's
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 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)