Water
Remembers
a four-volume audiovisual series
Water Remembers is a four-volume audiovisual body of work by Katie Mosehauer. Each volume pairs a canonical classical composition with an original response built from its musical foundations, creating a two-part conversation between inherited material and the present. The music is accompanied by films in which landscape, movement, texture, physical form, and contextual text provide another vantage point on the ideas held in the sound.
The project approaches classical repertoire not as a fixed monument, but as a living language that can be entered, questioned, dismantled, and transformed. It uses inherited music to ask explicitly political questions about contemporary life: how people understand progress, how individual action gathers into collective force, how instability is disguised, and how violence persists beneath familiar surfaces.
Informed by Mosehauer’s years in criminal justice reform and social justice advocacy, the four volumes move from progress, participation, and collective action toward instability, disappearance, and violence. Water Remembers is a distinct project and a concentrated expression of her larger practice—one in which music, image, landscape, physical form, time, memory, and perception work together to reveal what may be missed from a single point of view.
Water Remembers I:
The Current Carries
Now streaming worldwide, The Current Carries opens Water Remembers with Franz Liszt’s Consolation No. 3 in D-flat major and Mosehauer’s original companion work, Converging Tides (after Liszt). Liszt’s Consolations cycle emerged from a search for solace in friendship after a loss of faith; Mosehauer’s response turns that history toward contemporary doubts about inevitable progress. Rather than imagining change as a single current moving forward, the volume considers it as the convergence of countless lives, efforts, and sacrifices. Together, the works ask what it means to sustain belief and collective action when progress feels fragile, contingent, and vulnerable to reversal.
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Original composition by Franz Liszt reimagined for harp and violin by Katie Mosehauer
Newly composed companion work by Katie Mosehauer built from Liszt’s musical foundation
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The Water Remembers Series
Volume IThe Current Carries
Included tracks:
1. Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-Flat Major, Lento placido
2. Converging Tides (after Liszt)
Released October 23, 2026
Volume IIWhat Doesn’t Hold
Included tracks:
1. Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (arr. Kreisler)
2. The Rill Wavers (after Gluck)
Releasing in 2027
Volume IIISlipping Under
Included tracks:
1. Violin Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: III. Larghetto
2. The Tether Slacks (after Handel)
Releasing in 2027
Volume IVWhat Lies Beneath
Included tracks:
1. Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1, No. 10, B.g10 “Didone abbandonata”: II. Presto non troppo
2. Midnight Fathoms (after Tartini)
Releasing in 2027
Water Remembers concentrates the central elements of Katie Mosehauer’s practice—music, film, landscape, physical form, time, memory, and perception—into an audiovisual series.
It uses inherited music as one material through which to ask questions about contemporary political and societal life; Katie’s larger practice also encompasses wholly original work.
