ABSTRACT The soniDOME Project (Sonification Interactions with Deep Ocean Microbial Ecology) introduced an innovative sensorial path of inquiry for artist-scientist collaborations and the creative and scientific exploration of experiential data interactions with deep ocean microbial ecologies. This art-science collaboration spanned data development and analysis through data display, interaction, open source software toolkit distributions and public engagement. soniDOME expanded the sensoria of existing methods of complex data interpretation from visual forms to interactive soundscapes as a means to explore and interpret the structures, interactions and dynamics of remote microbial communities.