The music of the spheres

I just spotted this review of a new musical composition called Aleph, which attempts to recreate in music the first moments of the universe. There seems to be a real craze for this sort of thing at the moment.  A couple of weeks ago, I read about some Cambridge astronomers who were trying to make music out of dark energy, the spooky stuff that is supposed to make up much of the universe.

Am I the only one to think this is a bit pointless? I like classical music but this just sounds like an excuse to compose some dreadful cacophony and dress it up as culture.

Music of the spheres? I can think of a couple of spherical things that this sort of thing strikes me as.