Oliveros has always used technology as a means to express human experiences and to connect as directly as possible with her listeners. Listen to Bye Bye Butterfly, a piece Oliveros made in 1965 that deconstructs a recording of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, realised in a single improvisation. It's a witty, tragic, and moving comment on the fate of Puccini's operatic heroine, which, as she says, "bids farewell not only to the music of the 19th century but also to the system of polite morality of that age and its attendant institutionalised oppression of the female sex."
As said in a 2003 public radio interview:
As a matter of fact, when Don Buchla was demonstrating his first Buchla box in the One Hundred series in 1965, at the Tape Music Center in San Francisco, I was upstairs making "Bye, Bye Butterfly," which is another kind of classic electronic music piece of mine from the '60s.