A musician was mauled to death by a grizzly bear in a remote area of Canada — where he had traveled to record various sounds in the wilderness, according to a new report.

Julien Gauthier, 44, had been traveling with biologist Camille Toscani in the Tulita area on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, the BBC reported.

Gauthier was sleeping when the bear suddenly dragged him away sometime in the middle of the night, said Toscani, who realized what happened around 7:45 a.m. Thursday and raised a distress alert, according to the report.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched the largely isolated area, accessible only by sea or air, and found Gauthier’s body the next day, according to the report.

Gauthier, Toscani and another woman, a cellist, had planned to canoe about 930 miles down the Mackenzie River from Fort Providence to Inuvik, according to a crowdfunding page for the project.

Gauthier was born and raised in Canada with his two French parents and moved to France at age 19, where he stayed, according to reports.

“It was his dream to go there, to go to the North,” Toscani told the French-language newspaper Le Parisien. “He had asked me to take part in this adventure, we had been thinking about it for three years. We were so happy to get to do it. He was a unique artist, inspired by open spaces and nature.”

He was a composer in residence with the Brittany Symphony Orchestra since 2017, according to the BBC. The orchestra called him “a sensitive, generous and talented man” with “a sense of adventure, wonder and rare intelligence.”

In an Aug. 7 Facebook post, written in French, Gauthier mentioned he’d encountered four bears, all kinds of birds and a wolf, after only five days of canoeing and camping.

But he’d already recorded “some very important sounds,” he shared.