Anna Meredith: the proms composer ditching classical music for club bangers

She’s a respected composer of classical music. So how did that lead to an album of pop and techno stompers?The sight of a of 20ft-tall bare bum farting out iPhone messages is about the last thing anyone with jetlag would want to experience, yet Anna Meredith is revelling in it. She is fresh off a flight from the US, where she was teaching Utah’s Mormon Youth Orchestra her piece Hands Free, a body percussion composition that resembles a giant, noisy Mexican wave. But now we’re a