Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist with concentration in experimental monophonic music. A continually active touring performer since the mid-00s, his work has been presented by countless venues across Asia, Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. He has released dozens of albums on independent labels as well as through Madacy Jazz, his digital/print imprint co-founded in 2014 with Sam Sfirri. He has also provided soundtracks to several features and shorts by the Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina, most recently Gangsterism (2025).
Madacy Jazz (2014-present)
October 28 • Sadlier House • Peterborough
October 30 • Masterclass at McGill University • Montreal
October 30 • Brassier Beaubien • Montreal
October 31 • The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar • Toronto
If Gliss Insistence Delta Analyses Then Gliss Insistence Delta Analyses (forthcoming, 2026)
Live Unison and Unison Continued (with Sam Weinberg) (Stern Records, 2026)
unprompted trio movement or some timbre transfer sequences (Tutorial Island, 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)
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)