ABSTRACT
Time Perspectives, Bye Bye Butterfly, and I of IV are three of Pauline Oliveros’s most important pieces from the 1960s, a decade in which a great deal of her work was composed with electronic media. Her love of sound technology, especially recording and mixing sounds, is connected to her mother, Edith Gutierrez, who gave Oliveros a Sears Roebuck wire recorder as a present in 1947, and a Silvertone magnetic tape recorder in 1953. These were extremely significant gifts for Oliveros and her sonic experiments with technology. All three pieces offer musical commentary on questions of lesbian life and musical creativity as Oliveros experienced them.
