Something I’ve been thinking about lately is how my approach to performance has evolved. I’m a self-taught musician. Although I was in the school orchestra for a few years and have taken classes here and there as an adult to brush up on specific skills, I didn’t have a formal or professional training in music.
How did Reliquary V come to be? Although I can’t recall exactly when I started using it for my instagram handle, I started using this alias for music officially in 2020. Prior to that, I had been making music under the name Kayla Guthrie, which for years had consisted of experimental songs presented as intimate and vulnerable performances.
In December 2021, I released Dematerialize, an album of electronic poetry that I’d been working on for the past several years. The recording was made available in cassette and digital form by New York City tape label Soap Library.