“Unbroken” featured as the soundtrack for Lake Pedder

On Wednesday 30th October (2019) the opening track for Steve’s soon-to-be released new album  “Unbroken” featured as the soundtrack for a music video to promote the restoration of Lake Pedder. The music video (link below) was launched as part of the opening reception of the Lake Pedder - Journey to Restoration Exhibition held at the Sidespace Gallery in Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.

The original lake was a beautiful glacial remnant in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area before it was drowned nearly 50 years ago as part of a hydro-electricity scheme including the nearby Gordon River dam. The defining feature of the original lake was a rare wide and deep pink-sand beach made famous internationally by photographers like Olegas Truchanas, and artists such as Max Angus, Elspeth Hope-Johnstone and others from the (in)famous Sunday Group.

The 50th “anniversary” is important as 50 years is the ‘shelf-life’ of the dam before it needs major re-engineering, Or, the money needed could be allocated to restore the iconic original lake by carefully draining the dam’s impoundment, a very minor contributor to the hydro-electricity grid. A positive decision to undertake such a far-sighted and quite feasible outcome would coincide with the launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecological Restoration 2021-2030 which aims to encourage restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems world-wide.

One of Australia’s most prominent and venerated conservationists, Christine Milne AO, who co-convenes the Restore Pedder Committee, expressed her delight how Steve’s music for this campaign video“ ..is haunting (conveying) what was lost and what is hopeful, what can be retrieved and celebrated - exactly what I would like (it) to convey”. Steve hopes the video inspires people to see how, despite everything, Lake Pedder is unbroken, how environmental resilience is the basis for actions to improve things for generations to come.

“Unbroken (Lake Pedder)”
Recorded at Mixmasters Studio, October 2019
Produced by Heath Cullen
Studio wizardry by Mick Wordley
Video Post-production by RUMMIN Hobart: Edited by Craige Langworthy
Music score inscribed by Rhys Gray

The sheet-music is available on the Music page of this website.

Please also visit lakepedder.org
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Lake Pedder Restoration Committee

Christine Milne AO, Dr Bob Brown, Todd Dudley, Chris Holliday and Paul Thomas; and Jessica Robbins as the campaign project officer. Restore Pedder is supported by: Bob Brown Foundation, Keep Tassie Wild, The State Cinema (Hobart), The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, The Wilderness Society and the Australia Institute, Tasmania.