First launched in 2000 at Side Street LIVE, the annual Los Angeles new music festival comes to REDCAT for its fourth edition. In two nights of earbending innovation, earjam IV features a diverse cross-section of the most creative composers and performers in Los Angeles. Each evening's program includes two sets and two improvised jams. Writing about a previous installment of earjam, Peter Frank of the L.A. Weekly has noted that "if things keep going like this, the two-day, several-hour-a-night blowout will become L.A.'s primo annual new local music fest." earjam IV is produced by sound, performance and visual artist Jacki Apple and singer, composer and artist Julie Adler.

The program on June 19 features:

• Becky Allen
• Natural Music (J.T. Coker & Ed Nunnery)
• James Carney
• Steuart Liebig/Lane Ends, Merge Left
• Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom
• Ensemble of 31 Birds (Kraig Grady & Erin Barnes)
• Joseph Hammer
• SVARA
• The Los Angeles Flute Orchestra, featuring Vinny Golia

The June 20 program includes:

• Eric Sbar/Brass Ensemble
• Don Preston's Akashic Ensemble
• Missincinatti (Jessica Catron & Jeremy Drake)
• Brad Dutz Quintet
• Weba Garretson
• Alicia Mangan & Lisle Ellis
• Karen Elaine Bakunin
• We Are Not Mailmen (Art Jarvinen & Eric Barber)
• Andrew Durkin/The Industrial Jazz

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