Making Music With Real Stars: Kepler Telescope Star Data Creates Musical Melody reports on the creation of music from astronomical data.
By itself an amusing curiousity but in the larger context of data exploration, perhaps something more.
I would have trouble carrying a tune in sack but we shouldn’t evaluate data exploration techniques based solely on our personal capabilities. Any more than colors should be ignored in visualization because some researchers are color blind.
A starting place for conversations about sonification would be the Georgia Tech Sonification Lab.
Or you can download the Sonification Sandbox.
BTW, question for music librarians/researchers:
Is there an autocomplete feature for music searches? Where a user can type in the first few notes and is offered a list of continuations?