News / Events Biography Projects Contact   Mem1 Mem1 is an electroacoustic duo that seamlessly blends the sounds of cello (Laura Thomas-Merino) and electronics (M. Cera) to create a subtle evolution of textures that moves beyond melody, lyricism, and traditional structural confines, resulting in an organically revealed narrative. Mem1 has collaborated with the Penderecki String Quartet and performed at REDCAT (Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art, and numerous venues throughout Southern California and the East Coast. Mem1 has been awarded a 2007 artist residency at Harvestworks in New York for the creation of a new surround sound piece; they have just returned from Tel-Aviv, where they collaborated with media art duo Duprass on video for this work. Their second full-length album, Alexipharmaca, is published by Interval Recordings. Suna No Onna Suna no onna is a cello and viola duo committed to the performance of new and experimental music. The name Sunna no onna comes from the title of a novel by Japanese author Kobo Abe that was later made into a film by director Hiroshi Teshigahara and is loosely translated as "Woman in the Dunes" Community MusicWorks Sebastian Ruth founded Community MusicWorks in 1997 with the conviction that music and musicians have an important role to play in creating and transforming communities. With start-up funding from the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, Sebastian created the opportunity for a professional string quartet to teach, perform, live, and become fully integrated into an urban Providence neighborhood.