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, microtuning and sliding, and pulse salience as formal determinants. Some of his prolific output has been presented by Cafe OTO, CHIMEFest, 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.
for 7:1 mux and flip-flop at random (v, 2025) • My Own Private "Synthesis by Finite Juxtaposed Elements" (iv, 2025) • Single-Stream Iteration of Sliding Sounds with Quasi-Periodicity (iii, 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) • 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) • "Violin, Viola, Trombone, Tuba quartet" attempting to play tutti—"approximating tutti" (xii, 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) • A few sequential electroacoustic contributions (vii, 2021) • Patriarchal Music (v, 2021) • Untitled discrete arbitrary input functions—polyphony—for harpsichord after Brianna and Kassidy (xii, 2020) • 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) • Plays / For Theatre (viii, 2011) • And Death I Think Is No Parenthesis (viii, 2008)