What does progress sound like? Katie Mosehauer answers Oct. 23

What does progress sound like when it can be undone? With Water Remembers I: The Current Carries, violinist, composer, and producer Katie Mosehauer explores this question through a musical conversation between Franz Liszt’s Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-flat Major and her original composition, “Converging Tides (after Liszt).” The first installment of a four-volume audiovisual project, the release brings together violin, harp, orchestral strings, and electronic sound design to consider collective action, impermanence, and what we choose to carry forward.

“Working in criminal justice reform taught me how fragile progress can be. From a distance, change can look inevitable, but up close, you see how much depends on people continuing to show up, even when the outcome is uncertain. That tension is at the heart of The Current Carries,” says Mosehauer.

A violinist with a background spanning classical performance, independent music production, and more than a decade of criminal justice reform and social justice advocacy, Mosehauer approaches classical repertoire not as something fixed in the past, but as a living language capable of taking on new meaning. Across Water Remembers, she pairs four canonical works with original compositions built from their musical foundations, creating dialogues between past and present. Each two-track volume is accompanied by a film that extends its musical and thematic questions into the visual world.

For The Current Carries, Mosehauer reimagines Liszt’s lyrical piano composition as an arrangement for violin and harp. In “Converging Tides,” she layers additional violins, violas, synthesizers, and sound design into an original work that draws on Liszt’s musical language while moving in a new direction.

“I’m interested in what happens when you let a piece of music keep changing. Rather than treating a classical work as something fixed in the past, I approach it as a starting point for a new conversation. With ‘Converging Tides,’ I wanted to stay connected to what moved me in Liszt’s music while allowing new sounds, textures, and ideas to emerge. Their differences are part of what makes the conversation meaningful,” Mosehauer explains.

The accompanying film mirrors the music’s exploration of collective change through gestures that repeat, falter, and begin again. No single movement transforms the landscape, but each becomes part of what comes next—a reflection of Mosehauer’s belief that progress is not inevitable, but something people build and rebuild together.

The three subsequent volumes of Water Remembers explore faltering expectations, the disappearance of familiar realities, and the relationship between beauty and violence in the contemporary world. Together, the series brings Mosehauer’s musical and political perspectives into conversation, inviting listeners to reconsider familiar works and reflect on how time changes what we remember, what we value, and what we carry forward.

Water Remembers I: The Current Carries is available on streaming platforms October 23. For pre-save links and more information, visit Katie Mosehauer’s links page.

Release Information

Artist: Katie Mosehauer
Release: Water Remembers I: The Current Carries

Tracks:

1. Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-Flat Major, Lento placido
2. Converging Tides (after Liszt)

Format: Two-track release with accompanying film

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