Thomas Meluch Born August 4 1984 Is An American Singer-Songwriter Multi-Instrumentalist Writer And Photographer Best Known By His Pseudonym Benoît Pioulard. Meluch Began Documenting Field Recordings And His Own Lo-Fi Compositions On Dictaphones Discarded Stereos And Four-Track Machines In The Mid 1990s Later Focusing On Highly Limited CD-R And Cassette Releases Of His Experimental Folk-Influenced Songs For Friends And Family. His First Recordings As Benoît Pioulard Appeared On The Random Number...Colors Start Compilation Released By The Ann Arbor-Based Moodgadget Label In 2004. After 2005's Enge EP Meluch Was Signed To Chicago's Kranky Imprint For Whom He Recorded The Albums Précis 2006 And Temper 2008 . Meluch Lives In Portland Oregon.