# Pauline Oliveros — Bye Bye Butterfly

Pauline Oliveros’s Bye Bye Butterfly (1965) is No. 6 in our Minimalism ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 1965
- **On one list:** Minimalism
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Pauline Oliveros](https://waxonia.com/artist/pauline-oliveros/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/pauline-oliveros--bye-bye-butterfly/

## What we say

### No. 6 in [Minimalism](https://waxonia.com/genre/minimalism/)

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.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Pauline%20Oliveros%20Bye%20Bye%20Butterfly) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vepXC2RUW10)

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