In place: an extended multi-media song cycle - Cheltenham Music Festival

A new kind of song-cycle in ten movements inspired by Robert McFarlane’s Landmarks, In place explores how our sense of place informs our cultural identity. Composer Colin Riley has collaborated with writers Robert McFarlane, Paul Farley, Nick Papadimitrou, Daljit Nagra, Jackie Morris, Richard Skelton and Autumn Richardson, weaving together place names, folksongs, found texts, field recordings and scored music to produce a work which speaks to all corners of the British Isles and crosses art-form boundaries.