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light.box (Bonney / Tremblay) + Tom Challenger : Eyre (Bead)

"For their fourth album, and second release on Bead, light.box augments the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) with a special guest, Tom Challenger on tenor saxophone

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Personnel:



Alex Bonney-trumpet, electronics

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay-bass guitar, electronics

Tom Challenger-tenor saxophone


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UPC: 5904224874452

Label: Bead
Catalog ID: 51
Squidco Product Code: 36477

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at City University, in London, UK, on February 28th, 2024.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"For their fourth album, and second release on Bead, light.box augments the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) with a special guest, Tom Challenger on tenor saxophone

The album explores a vast range of textures and dynamics from cinematic ambient drones to delicate timbral and microtonal explorations, from fast-paced dialogues to invasive waves of distortion. The rapport between the musicians has developed over years of playing together in various other projects; yet this recording captures the first-ever performance of this trio, in all its exploratory rawness."-Bead"


Artist Biographies

"Alex Bonney is a trumpeter, electronic musician and recording/mix engineer and producer based in London.

He leads the Alex Bonney Quartet, is a member of Leverton Fox, light.box, Splice, BABs, Golden Age of Steam, Sefiroth, Olie Brice Quintet, plays in a duo with bassist Dave Kane, performs solo with electronics and in a variety of other improvising ensembles. When not performing Alex works with a variety of artists producing and engineering music for leading jazz, improvised and contemporary music record labels including ECM, HCR, Two Rivers, Whirlwind, Babel, Loop, Jellymould, Not Applicable and Edition. He also works as a music educator and photographer."

-Alex Bonney Website (https://www.alexbonney.co.uk/?page_id=8)
7/15/2025

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"Pierre Alexandre Tremblay was born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec. He studied classical guitar and music theory from an early age, and as a teenager discovered bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato. He also studied composition with Michel Tétrault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison. He earned his BA in music at the Université de Montréal in 1998 and his doctorate at the University of Birmingham in 2005. Since then, he has been teaching composition at the University of Huddersfield, in England.

In 1993, he explored improvised music with Facteur X, which led to the formation of the contemporary jazz ensemble [iks] in 1996. He directed this ensemble for 11 years, recording seven albums, touring Europe and North America and spending three months in Senegal for a cultural exchange with traditional West African musicians. This journey was chronicled in Étienne Deslières�s documentary film Le journal de sable.

He is currently collaborating on a variety of projects, playing bass guitar and manipulating sound on a laptop. He is a member of the contemporary jazz trio ars circa musicæ with Nicolas Stephan (saxophone) and Sébastien Brun (drums and machines), and the duet de type inconnu with Sylvain Pohu (guitar and laptop). He also works on pop music projects in studio as producer and bass guitar.

Tremblay is now working on hybridizing his aesthetic approaches, which he feels complete each other, into a single, coherent poetic language. He composes fixed media, instrumental and mixed music, sometimes integrating video, improvisation and real-time processing.

As a composer, he is fascinated by the listener�s experience rather than the process of creation. He considers the perception of form extremely important, and gives ample room to the emotional content, the poetic impact of the music.

He also programs sound processing software, mostly using Max/MSP, and freelances as artistic and technical director for contemporary music projects. He devotes the rest of his time (sic) to reading, photography and his family. Founder of the no-tv collective, he does not own a functioning television set."

-Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Website (https://www.pierrealexandretremblay.com/detailedbio.html)
7/15/2025

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"Tom Challenger (Born in Huddersfield) is a Saxophonist, Composer, Educator, Band Leader and Sideman. With an output characterised by it's musical breadth, he leads 'Brass Mask', which performs music inspired by the traditional street-musics and collective improvisation; 'Wedding Music' with Kit Downes in a Church Organ/Saxophone duo; Dice Factory, a jazz quartet exploring alternative methods of composition who released their debut album in 2012 to critical acclaim; and 'Ma.' the electro-improv outfit who have released 3 acclaimed albums."

-Tom Challenger Website (http://www.tomchallenger.co.uk/about)
7/15/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Lateral Sway 7:04

2. Chain Chimes Part 1 8:42

3. Chain Chimes Part 2 8:45

4. Chain Chimes Interlude 1:38

5. Chain Chimes Part 3 12:04

6. Covalent 10:23

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