For 10 points, identify this composer of Gnarly Buttons and Short Ride in a Fast Machine who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his piece On the Transmigration of Souls.
This composer called some of his pieces "travelling music," because they give the distinct impression of a shifting landscape. He composed a Pantagruel boogie with a thrusting grinding beat in his piece inspired by Blake, Fearful Symmetries. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the premiere of the orchestral work by this composer which contains "Mother of the Man" and "Chain to the Rhythm" movements. Players of Civilization IV have been introduced to his piece that contains a reflection of the "Dolorous Stroke" in the Fisher King and a meditation of Meister Eckhart, his Harmonielehre. This composer of NaÃ¯ve and Sentimental Music opened another of his pieces with the word "missing" repeated over and over as a soundscape of pre-recorded music of traffic and footsteps plays in the background. For 10 points, identify this composer of Gnarly Buttons and Short Ride in a Fast Machine who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his piece On the Transmigration of Souls.
This composer called some of his pieces "travelling music," because they give the distinct impression of a shifting landscape.
John Adams