Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist with a concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work focuses on a skeptical, first-principles approach applied across multifarious formal contexts using iterative processes, microtuning and sliding, and pulse salience as morphological determinants. Some of his prolific output has been presented by CHIMEFest, Issue Project Room, Liverpool Biennial, Madacy Jazz, Museum of Modern Art, Poetry Project, Pioneer Works, Pitchfork, Segue Foundation, Triple Canopy, and Wire Magazine.
January 21, 2025 • Toronto • Wenona Lodge
January 23, 2025 • Toronto • Tranzac Club
January 24, 2025 • Toronto • Masterclass at University of Toronto
March 06, 2025 • Brussels • Pilar
March 08, 2025 • The Hague • 3345
March 09, 2025 • Glasgow • The Old Hairdressers
March 11, 2025 • Dublin • Anseo
March 12, 2025 • Manchester • Ascension Church Hulme
March 13, 2025 • Leeds • Wharf Chambers
March 16, 2025 • London • Cafe OTO
New Plays Standards with Dan Fortin and Philippe Melanson (ii, 2025)
Two pieces for fixed media pitched instruments voice zero build (xi, 2024) • Wind Quintet I-IV, Solo (viii, 2024) • SYLVESTER ARIAS PLUS TWO (vi, 2024) • split with Ashcircle (v, 2024) • What About Jophnie (iv, 2024) • Complex envelope functions from nonlinear i/o and feature extraction etc. (split with Luciano Maggiore) (iii, 2024) • Four Improvisations (with Sam Weinberg) (i, 2024) • Monophonic Forms of Glissandi and Tempo Modulation (xii, 2023) • Four Slow-Fast Solos via Studio (x, 2023) • One- and two-channel electroacoustic pieces (v, 2023) • Period "buzz" period "honk" structure and bending impromptus (ii, 2023) • Something something "Lyapunov exponent" solos (i, 2023) • "Violin, Viola, Trombone, Tuba quartet" attempting to play tutti—"approximating tutti" (xii, 2022) • Plays Standards with Henry Fraser and Tom Rainey (x, 2022) • Live Concert (Single-Sided Split) (with Sam Weinberg) (ix, 2022) • Seven compositions for direct sound synthesis, fixed media, and musical instruments (viii, 2022) • Total Orderings for FLEA (iv, 2022) • Pre-recorded guitar monophony with unaccompanied improvisations (iii, 2022) • Quartet polyphony demonstration for double bass, guitar, piano, and violoncello (ii, 2022) • Lag processing of low-frequency chaotic pulse train jitter, 1-4 (xii, 2021)
A few sequential electroacoustic contributions (vii, 2021)
• Very logical monophonic compositions for synthesized sound (vi, 2021)
• Patriarchal Music (v, 2021)
• Untitled discrete arbitrary input functions—polyphony—for harpsichord after Brianna and Kassidy (xii, 2020)
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Plays Standards (xii, 2019) •
CODE573 (xi, 2019) •
Untitled (xi, 2018) •
Slate—Early (with Jason Roebke) (iii, 2018)
• Derrison (with Sam Sfirri) (v, 2017) • KIERAN IN A HOLE (xi, 2017)
• untitled pluff BGM w ossias (xi, 2016)
• Group's Schedule (iv, 2015)
• Music and Pyrrhonism Without Us (xii, 2014)
• BGM MNAR (x, 2014)
• Suspended (of) the formal capacity to sample and thereby preserve such samples according to the conditions from which they appeared (i, 2014)
• Apsirs Rehearsal (vi, 2013)
• Plays / For Theatre (viii, 2011)
• And Death I Think Is No Parenthesis (viii, 2008)