Edges of Dreaming is back this week at last, with the long-promised challenge episode… for which we only received a single entry. Was it really that, um, challenging? It must have been but George L Smyth send a good one that used all of the challenge’s parameters!

“No Food In The House”, today’s sole challenge track, was based on a haiku George wrote: 

• “The building itself” – Joe Frawley – Curious Perspectives (2011)
• “Rebuilding The Soul” – Wolfgang Gsell – Harmony (2017)
• “Building, Breaking, Rebuilding” – onewayness + dRachEmUsiK – The Silence Is A Lie: Live Improvisations Vol. 1 (2014)
• “The House at Night” – Theta Wave Orchestra – The House in the Woods (2019)
• “Little house by the ocean” – Bing Satellites – Little house by the ocean (2017)
• “World Building” – Loose Link And The Alternative Sapien – This Music Plants Trees (2015)
• “Lunch With The Morlocks” – Cousin Silas | Tim Jones | Kevin Lyons – Leftovers (2018)
• “The Hunter’s Chase” – David Gerard and Scott Lawlor – Our House (2018)
• “Sunrise in Eden 02 The Forbidden Fruit” – Matthieu Bélanger / Claude Lassonde / Christopher Short – The Pearl ~ Reflections in Glassine Subliminality (2014)
• “Gathering Desert Food” – Una Voce – Provenance (2003)
• “No Food In The House” – George L Smyth – Even More Music About Buildings And Food (2019)
• “strange fruit” – Bark Citrus Oakestra – This Music Plants Trees 2 (2017)
• “Savour” – Loneward – Home (2019)
• “Comfort” – Chris Russell – Home Disc 1 (2011)
• “The Return Home” – Giles Reaves – The Deep End (2000)

No food in the house 
Someone please go to the store 
Finally, dinner! 

The piece is in three parts, each part relating to a line in the poem. Included within is an homage to Talking Heads’ Burning Down The House. 

“No Food In The House” was written for Clarinet, Horn, Trombone, Tubular Bells, Cymbals, Vibraphone, Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass.