For 10 points, identify this American composer of the Imaginary Landscape series and a work in which no notes are played for 273 seconds.
His String Quartet in Four Parts is based on Indian philosophical views of the seasons, while his Apartment House 1776 was composed for the American bicentennial. He based another work on Satie's Socraté, whilehe used text by James Joyce for a work subtitled "an Irish circus on Finnegan's Wake." In addition to Cheap Imitation and (*) Roaratorio, his Etudes Australes made prominent use of star charts. This man is more famousfor works created using a "prepared piano," as well as a four-part series that uses phonographs and radios as instruments. For 10 points, identify this American composer of the Imaginary Landscape series and a work in which no notes are played for 273 seconds.
His String Quartet in Four Parts is based on Indian philosophical views of the seasons, while his Apartment House 1776 was composed for the American bicentennial.
John Milton Cage, Jr.