FARMINGTON — Composers, performers, artists and innovators, Pauline Oliveros and Annea Lockwood will offer a series of University of Maine at Farmington Sound Forum events Nov. 18-21. The free series will reveal how sound, silence and noise shape the aural landscape of our lives, according to a news release from UMF.

Schedule of events

• Wednesday, Nov. 18: A panel discussion on sound at 11:45 a.m. in the Performance Space in the UMF Emery Community Arts Center will feature Oliveros, Lockwood, N. B. Aldrich, a new media artist and educator; and Gustavo Aguilar, composer and associate professor of experimental performance at UMF. The panel will be moderated by Steven Pane, UMF professor of music.

• Nov. 18-21: Lockwood will present her sound art exhibit, “A Sound Map of the Danube,” at 3:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, in the Flex Gallery in the UMF Emery Community Arts Center. Recorded more than three years and five trips to Europe, this soundscape traces the second longest European river’s run from the Black Forest in Germany to its delta into the Black Sea.

• Thursday, Nov. 19: A “Deep Listening,” workshop by Oliveros, is set for 7 p.m. in the Performance Space in the UMF Emery Community Arts Center. The event will show how there’s more to listening than meets the ear. Deep Listening explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature — exclusive and inclusive of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, interactive performance, listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination and dreams, and listening to listening itself. Lockwood also will present a short talk on her last work “Wild Energy.”

A composer, performer and innovator, Oliveros is a powerful figure in American avant-garde music. Her 50-year career has focused on opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sound. She has influenced American music through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual, according to the release.

Born in New Zealand, Lockwood is a composer whose work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. During the 1960s she collaborated with sound poets, choreographers and visual artists, and also created a number of works such as the “Glass Concerts,” which initiated her lifelong fascination with timbre and new sound sources. Later in her career, she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds and life-narratives. Her progressive ideas range from the microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music.

These events are sponsored by the Office of the UMF Provost, UMF Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry, the UMF Divisions of Social Science and Business, Natural Science and Humanities and the Emery Community Arts Center.

For more information, visit umf.maine.libguides.com.