Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist with concentration in experimental monophonic music. Primarily focusing on real-time iterative articulation of sliding timbres, his work has been presented by countless venues across Asia, Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. As a prolific recording artist, 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, including 88:88 (2015), Inventing the Future (2020), He Thought He Died (2023), and Gangsterism (2025).
Madacy Jazz (2014-present)
May 24 • Torn Light Records • Chicago
June 21 • Experimental Sound Studio • Chicago • video
August 1-8 • You And Me Festival (concert + workshop) • Beijing
August 9 • Nanahari • Tokyo
August 10 • KD Japon • Nagoya
August 12 • Ftarri • Tokyo
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)