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  "slug": "pauline-oliveros",
  "name": "Pauline Oliveros",
  "description": "Pauline Oliveros appears once in our Minimalism list, placing as high as No. 6. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/pauline-oliveros/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
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    "last": 1965
  },
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      "slug": "minimalism",
      "name": "Minimalism",
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      "trackKey": "pauline-oliveros--bye-bye-butterfly",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/pauline-oliveros--bye-bye-butterfly/",
      "title": "Bye Bye Butterfly",
      "year": 1965,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Two oscillators, tape delay and a Puccini record, assembled live in one pass. Oliveros was building the vocabulary of electronic music while being left out of most accounts of who built it.",
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        },
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