Scientific sonification

This is a very interesting site. Here is a little bit from the top of
the page:

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~kaper/Sonification/index.html

The Scientific Sonification project is based on the concept that
sounds are dynamic events which evolve in a multidimensional space.
Each sound is a superposition of component
waves (partials), whose evolution is determined by a set of static and
dynamic control parameters. By defining a mapping from the data space
to the sound space, we create a
formalism for the faithful rendition of data in sounds.

Our research focuses on establishing coordinate systems in sound space
that optimize the aural perception of given data sets and their
salient features. The data sets are taken from
large-scale scientific computations; so far, we have rendered data
from computational chemistry, materials science, and computer science.

John Starrett