Kieran Daly is an American composer and guitarist 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.
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"Christopher Riggs doesn’t just play the electric guitar. They deconstruct it. They strip it down to its most fundamental elements. Forget scales, arpeggios, and even standard tunings—keys and harmonies are myths, anyway. Riggs eschews these things entirely, instead dragging their guitar to the brink and inviting us to hear the results." - Chicago Reader
