Eric Mouquet did not spend a long time choosing between music and astronomy. He did both.
The idea of his new project was born while looking up at the sky: an album based on space. Musician during the day, Eric becomes an astronomer at night. His music will make you meet aliens!

What gave you the idea of looking at the stars ?
From my childhood i have wonderful memories of the starry sky, which gave me the desire to observe what was happening up there. Thus, I started using telescopes. Astronomy has become a real passion that still fills me with as much enthusiasm today as when I was a child.

Your first memory?
My first observation of Saturn. I saw that little sphere surrounded by rings. This magic observation, so far and so close at the same time, gave me the desire to explore the sky with bigger instruments.

What are your expectations of astronomy?
When I take a picture of galaxies that are 15 million light years or more away, I have this kind of fascination and i say to myself that we actually are nothing in that universe.

When we have our mind in the sky what kind of music do we have in our head?
The practice of astronomy has influence on our everyday life and consequently on my music too. What I’m looking for may somehow be close to spirituality. I try to integrate feelings that belong to the world I live in.

How was the Deep Forest project born?
This project was initiated in 1991, with Michel Sanchez who is musician too. For 10 years we have been composing music with voices and sound atmospheres from all over the world. We mixed them in our studios. That’s what we call ethnic music.

There was Deep Forest, now will it be Deep Space?
Yes this is currently the project i am working on. The idea is to add music to the pictures i made. I wanted to find an atmosphere that was not a caricature of what we imagine when we generally speak about music for space.

What kind of instruments do you use?
I mix traditional sounds and instruments that will produce some atmosphere. This atmosphere shall evoke distances, feelings, while simple instruments like flutes, piano or percussions will bring us back to our world.

Can you tell us more about the music you composed for cosmostreet?
This music may be the main theme of my next album. It will mix organic stuff, voices, rhythms in loop, more or less like a kaleidoscope where we see shapes changing and where movements are never the same.