[DIYbio] The music of Chemical reactions

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Hi Everyone,

I need a chemist/biologist's help for my project.

To analyze the state of a reaction, chemists most often use their sense of vision and smell. What if each reaction could have a distinct sound/melody such that chemists would associate a sound to reactions? This would may allow them to grasp key characteristics from it such as:
- When is the reaction finished.
- What is the most reactive phase of the reaction.
- Did anything go wrong during the reaction.

What if the music generated by the reactions actually sounded good (some artists might like this one...)?

I plan to make a simple electronic circuit with a microcontroller connected to a speaker and sensors. The sensors would pickup specific data about the reaction (temperature, IR frequency emitted, color, transparency, disruption of magnetic field...) and feed the information to the controller. The controller would process the data and create sounds per a predetermined musical scheme dependent on the data (e.g. map the IR spectrum to the audible frequency spectrum).

I am an electrical engineer, so I am not a specialist in chemistry.
My issue: 
*What kind of data would be interesting to monitor in general reactions?

Feel free to tell me what you think about this mini-project and give me diverse suggestions!!!

I found a similar project online. You can read more about it in here:
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2014/06/04/the-music-of-molecules/

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