Soundstep Studios

Soundstep Studios is volunteer run, non-profit music collective that offers studio hire, artist residencies and free or low-cost workshops for emerging musicians, producers, audio engineers and other creatives working with sound and audio.   Studio hire sessions are available once a week and can be booked online.

Soundstep Studios is located at Woods Street Arts Space, 44-48 Woods Street Laverton. The recording studio is accessed via a flight of stairs and is open via appointment only.

Visit the website for a full list of services and equipment: www.soundstep.org

Read frequently asked questions about Soundstep(PDF, 106KB).

Artist in Residence Program

The Soundstep Studios Emerging Artist Residency is designed for early-career artists working with music or sound. This program provides two artists or bands with free access to the recording and mixing studio to develop a music or sound project at Woods Street Arts Space in Laverton.

Current artists at Soundstep Studios:

	Elijah Cristiano is a multidisciplinary artist living and creating on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). Spanning photography, videography and sound art, Elijah engages with notions of place, positionality and relationships between humans and environments. Elijah graduated from a Master of Photography at RMIT University, and was awarded the NAVA Ignition Award for Highest Performing in Professional Practice, the Brunswick Print Lab Prize, Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence Award and the RMIT Galleries Graduate Residency. He has exhibited and performed works both locally and internationally, most recently at the Pingyao International Festival of Photography in China and Gasworks Creative Precinct in Naarm.
	Paper Orchid is an indie folk-pop artist from Altona, fronted by local pianist and producer, Jasmin Boehme. Paper Orchid is currently working on producing their first album 'Rekindling', at Soundstep Studios, hoping to release in late 2026!
	Callum Cheah (they/them) is an award-winning sound designer, composer, writer and ambient music creator from Melbourne, Australia. Callum's award-winning designs have toured festivals globally, such as "Altar" (OFFIE Award Winner, Edinburgh Fringe, MIDSUMMA), "Asynchrony" (2022 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Best Film, Digital & Interactive Work, Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe) and “A Recorded Companion” (Access & Inclusion Award, 2020 Melbourne Fringe Festival). They have also worked with Barking Spider Creative as assistant sound designer/facilitator on ‘Kids Country’ (2022), Facilitator on ‘Wood Wide Web ‘(2022) and as the Head Sound Designer on ‘Old Light, New Lens’ (2023). Most importantly though, they love making little bleeps and bloops on the ‘too many’ synthesizers they own.

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