I've found this very interesting experiment called Sol by four artists who have created an audio/visual installation that converts scientific solar data into musical and visual representations. They take four sets of data, Medium Level Solar Radiation, Solar Wind, the distribution of Sunspots, and Solar Magnetic Mean Field. These readings are then directly translated into musical notes and are assigned different instruments. They similarly use different forms and visual patterns to represent the data as well. The result is amazing, I would expect the sounds to be more random, but it really is like music and almost sounds like you're orbiting the sun (in a burn-proof box). Here is a link to the project's website where you can listen to the music.
http://www.sol-sol.de/htm/English_Frames/English_Frameset.htm
This is similar to what I'm thinking about, but instead of focusing on accurate representation of data of something natural, I am attempting intuitive depictions of relationships between color, form, key, instrumentation, and notation derived from nature. Almost like "playing" a photo as a piece of sheet music, composed by nature.
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