{296}{330}Hello I’m Eric Mouquet.
{347}{396}I’m a musician and composer.
{416}{482}I had the chance to be part of Deep Forest,
{496}{546}a project that had success around the world.
{564}{596}I compose and make movie soundtracks
{615}{637}And today
{653}{721}I want to show you my two favourite places in my house:
{731}{833}my recording studio where I work as a musician
{851}{935}and my observatories, my second passion,
{962}{1034}where I spend nights taking photos of the sky.
{1181}{1281}I didn’t hesitate between music and astronomy, I did both!
{1393}{1496}Here we are at the end of the garden under the main dome
{1514}{1644}and this is the place where we control the two telescopes.
{1763}{1858}I taught myself, alone with books and little by little
{1871}{1952}with people who are passionate about astronomy.
{1966}{2041}There are a lot of amateur astronomers in France and in the world.
{2236}{2335}The envy of looking at the stars comes from my childhood.
{2351}{2429}I have memories of myself looking at the summer sky,
{2442}{2527}absolutely filled with wonder by the stary sky above.
{2544}{2669}And I always had the curiosity to go closer and closer | to see what’s hapenning up there.
{2750}{2868}The night is a very special time. | At night we sleep, we are somewhere else.
{2882}{2946}And staying awaken is important.
{2954}{3064}We know that for children, not going to bed | and doing something for themselves is very exciting.
{3077}{3154}I think that when we become adults
{3167}{3275}there is still something in us remaining from this. | We are out of the world at night.
{3313}{3462}What impassions me about astronomy, | is to be able to capture images of objects that are far, far away.
{3475}{3663}I look at maps and see galaxies that are | 10, 15 lightyears, sometimes more...
{3673}{3781}When I take a photo and see the image appearing
{3792}{3920}I have a kind of fascination, | saying to myself that we’re insignificant in that universe,
{3921}{3974}there are so many things surrounding us.
{3975}{4025}This is a chance to have the possibility, in a garden,
{4057}{4132}to take into conception all this in a very simple manner.
{4354}{4541}It was evident to me to add music to the images. | I wanted to find an atmosphere that wasn't artificial
{4603}{4803}and not a caricature/fright of what we imagine | when we think of music about space.
{4870}{5045}I wanted organic things, | really traditionnal instruments 
{5100}{5170}and things close to sound textures.
{5319}{5435}Textures will evocate distances, space, feelings
{5469}{5619}and simple intruments like flute and percussions | will bring us to where we are.
{5818}{5993}What we do in astronomy has an influence on our every day life | and probably in music too.
{6028}{6188}There’s an interaction between what I do during the day | and what I do at night.
{6203}{6403}There’s something close to spirituality and transcendence. | That’s what I’m looking for,
{6460}{6585}there’s a link with astronomy, | with the fact of looking for things outside of our world.