LeVautourEnsemble is definitely not a "band" in the typical sense. Rather, LeVautourEnsemble is a project tht allows its mastermind, writer Bernard P. Provencher LeVautour, to explore themes in his writing in the auditory form that, due to his background as a musician, he is able to best understand his subject-matter in. The records that the Ensemble records, therefore, serve as collections of snapshots, fragments of moods, soundscapes to compliment the writer's fiction and poetry. When the writer is struggling to understand the mood of a particular scene or to get to know a character, he will often write a song, as a sort of soundtrack to the scenario in question, and this method never fails to give him a better understanding of the subject that he is attempting to write. He is an artist who tends to think in sounds, and this is one of the places in which he collects those sounds.
The instrumentation for this project is most often electronic, but LeVautour places no parameters around the lengths that he will go to to capture the sounds in his head. Therefore, the instrumentation is diverse. Due to matters of taste, however, a lo-fi asthetic is maintained throughout... computer software is used for this project for nothing more intrusive than recording... all sounds are created with physical outboard machines and instruments, and are most often recorded as close as possible to live, with a stubborn attention to the textures of the sounds that are created and captured.
In late 2006, LeVautourEnsemble completed the record "...whose wings are a dull reality." The record has eleven tracks and clocks in within a handful of seconds of an hour long. It is the product of nearly two years of this peculiar sort of creative sound searching. As of yet, the record has not been officially released. Feel free to contact LeVautour directly through this site if you are interested in procuring a copy.
Bernard P. Provencher LeVautour also plays with the Manchster, New Hampshire Metro-Grime/ indie-electro act Tipsy Cougar , fronts the Phoenix-based doom-rock band The Green Sea , dabbles in solo eclectic indie-folk type stuff , and is the president and founder of the Asbjorn Poetry and Arts Collective . He actively blogs at LeVautourChronique .
