Martin says:

Joy! A major!

Those intriguided by the spiral games and not wanting to figure it out aurally could sneak a peek at the score of the orchestral version...

[from annameredith.com]

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, film and TV soundtracks, electronica, installations and experimental rock. 

Her music has been performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to BBC Last Night of the Proms to flashmob body-percussion performances at the M6 Services. It has been used in numerous fashion campaigns, adverts, films, TV shows, installations and pop festivals, clubs and classical concert halls worldwide and is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6.

Anna has been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the RPS/PRS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.  She has been a regular guest presenter for BBC Radio 3 and 6Music and a radio and TV guest, judge and panel member on numerous shows.

She was voted Number One in The List's Hot100 (of Cultural Contributors to 2016), made the 2018 BBC Women’s Hour Power List and was awarded an MBE for services to music in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Napier University in 2022 and Coventry University in 2023 and was recently awarded a Fellowship to the Royal College of Music. 

Her music is published by Decca Publishing, Warp Publishing & Faber Music Publishing and she is one of the inaugural residents of Somerset House Studios. 

Her debut album, Varmints was released in March 2016 to huge critical acclaim with 4 and 5 star reviews from press and media around the world including Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music. Varmints was Loud & Quiet's Album of the Year 2016 and won the 2016 Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award. 

Her second album, FIBS, was released in October 2019 and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize as well as being named Electronic Sound’s Album of the Year. It featured in numerous End of Year lists including Loud & Quiet, Paste, Stereogum and received 4 and 5 star reviews across the board.

For the past 8 years Anna has collaborated with her band - three of the UK’s leading instrumentalists - Maddie Cutter on cello, Jack Ross on guitar and Sam Wilson on drums. They have toured extensively including sold-out headline shows around the UK, including Barbican Centre, EartH, ICA, Oval Space and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as well as appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude, Haldern Pop, ReWire, Big Ears & SXSW festivals.

Their live show has been described as ‘sheer exhilaration’ by the New York Times, and as ‘a stormy, ecstatic, endlessly danceable thrill to behold…’ by NPR’s Bob Boilen who described their Tiny Desk performance as ‘simply the most exhilarating one I’ve experienced.’ 

They have collaborated with multiple orchestras to perform new arrangements of Anna’s material for band and orchestra including performances ranging from London’s Barbican (London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Rob Ames), Manchester’s Mayfield Depot (RNCM conducted by Rob Ames) for Factory International, to international performances including Georgia and the Netherlands.

In 2023 the Ligeti Quartet released NUC - an album of her string quartet works on Mercury KX. The album featured Anna’s existing pieces for string quartets plus new arrangements of album tracks for quartet and electronics by the violist Richard Jones. It was listed as one of the Guardian’s Ten Best Contemporary Albums of 2023. The Ligeti Quartet are touring NUC throughout 2023 and 2024, including performances at Bang On A Can’s 2024 Long Play Festival.  

Other recent projects include 2018’s Five Telegrams, a large scale orchestral piece written in collaboration with Tony Award-winning visuals company 59 Productions and co-commissioned by the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival and 14-18 NOW. Five Telegrams was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Proms Youth Ensemble and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain both inside and outside the Royal Albert Hall at the First Night of the Proms and outside the Usher Hall as the opening night of the Edinburgh International Festival. 

Her piece ANNO, which features both Anna's music and Vivaldi's Four Seasons with visuals by her sister, illustrator Eleanor Meredith, has been performed extensively including performances in the USA, Europe, Japan and around the UK. A recording of ANNO performed in collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble,  was released in 2018 on Moshi Moshi Records.

Her body percussion pieces, HandsFree and Connect It  (written with choreographer David Ogle) were featured in the BBC’s award winning Ten Pieces scheme which reached half of all primary school-aged children in the UK. 

In 2022, her music soundtracked Alan Cumming and Steven Hoggett’s one man dance-theatre production BURN.

Her installation work includes Bumps Per Minute - a surround sound music and visuals installation project for dodgems with an interactive soundtrack triggered by cars colliding. She also wrote a four part Bach-inspired electronic installation controlled by shopping centre-lifts for Manchester International Festival, a driver-led installation piece for the Zamboni machine at Somerset House ice rink, and AR & VR soundtracks including the award-winning SURGE. 

Now established as a sought-after composer for film & TV, Anna wrote her first soundtrack in 2018 for Bo Burnham’s hugely successful debut feature Eighth Grade for A24 (now expanded into a live score event) and followed with her first TV score for Netflix’s Living With Yourself. Her music features in numerous films and shows including Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, and Channel 4’s HELP. 

She recently wrote the score for the highly acclaimed The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo, for which Anna’s score was nominated for a British Independent Film Award (BIFA). Other recent projects include the score for the forthcoming A24 feature TUESDAY starring Julia Louis Drefis. She is represented by Robert Messinger at Fortress Talent.

She is currently working on her third studio album.