It is the musical representation of some of the most cutting edge experiments in the world.

Yet when seven physicists from CERN created a composition based on measurements from inside the Large Hadron Collider the results were surprisingly traditional, with even a hint of baroque.

In a video released to mark the 60th anniversary of the Swiss institute, the scientists are shown playing harps and violins beside the huge particle accelerator in which the Higgs boson was discovered last year.

The music is based on the translation of scientific data collected by the four main Large Hadron Collider experiments in a process known as sonification.

Sonfication works by assigning a musical note to each measurement created by experiments, so that the same data is presented as a musical score.

By Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent, video sourceCERN