Supersonix, a six-month celebration of the art and science of sound, culminates this month in a lively programme of workshops, lectures and performances (www.supersonix.org). The festival has been put together by the Exhibition Road Cultural Group, which represents a host of cultural organizations based around Exhibition Road in southwest London, including the Science Museum, Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music, and Imperial College London.

Among the Supersonix artists-in-residence, at work since the beginning of the year, is Aleks Kolkowski, who has been exploring historic recording technologies in the Science Museum collections. On 'Music Day' on 23 June, Kolkowski will lead the performance of a reconstructed 1905 concert, featuring musicians from the Royal College and an 'auxetophone'. The Science Museum holds the only surviving, working auxetophone, a historical link between the purely mechanical and purely electronic technologies for the recording of sound.

Elsewhere, sound artist Jason Singh, in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has been exploring the acoustic dimensions of sonifying vessels in the museum's Middle Eastern collections. A three-day symposium in the run up to Music Day includes sessions on sound and space, such as the 'sonification of the cosmic background radiation in everyday spaces' by Robin McGinley. And on the day itself, venues around Exhibition Road will be given over to free performances of all kinds of music, an array of sound installations, and, at the Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre, the premiere of Live and Roar, written by DBC Pierre and featuring musicians from contemporary-folk groups the Seth Lakeman Band and Bellowhead.

Running until 3 June is New York's World Science Festival, now in its fifth year (http://worldsciencefestival.com). Highlights of this year's programme include the premiere of a surreal short film, The Creator, made by award-winning filmmakers Al+Al and inspired by mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing's proposal in his 1950 'Turing test' paper to “consider the question, 'Can machines think?'”.