AbstractResearchers from many branches of scientific knowledge have been attracted by the organizational principles found in music. Also music has been an interesting domain for the application of new discoveries in science, inviting people to combine artistic creativity with scientific methods. A new environment has emerged in the domain of musical composition; what is now called computer music. This project is an attempt to identify correlations among different disciplines such as biology, crystallography, computing and fluid mechanics in order to investigate the possibility of composing music inspired by a framework of interdisciplinary knowledge. We have selected cellular automata to play the central role on our research due to the fact that they have been used to model a wide range of scientific phenomena, such as chemical reactions, dynamic systems, chaotic systems, genetics, crystal growth, and so forth. This paper describes a prototype implementation of an experimental system for cellular automata music composition. Musical aspects related to the system are also discussed.