Eliott Carter was an American composer, whose personal harmonic and rhythmic language led to the invention of the term metric modulation. The latter describes frequent, precise tempo changes. In David Schiff's book "The Music of Elliott Carter", it is written that Elliott Carter preferred to call it tempo modulation.
He is a hungarian-born french painter who painted geometric abstractions and was a prominent influence on the Op art movement.
The answer to number five is distance
I believe it’s strings (sorry if I’m wrong)
The answer that you are looking for is letter A.