Matt Voigt

After school I went to Uni for a year and a half to study information technology. I wasn't a fan and didn’t feel interested or motivated to continue so I dropped out. I ended up on the dole and had a side job where I drove around to different businesses and sold sandwiches and desserts to people for lunch. One of the places I visited every day was a recording studio in Richmond call RBX. I was playing in bands at the time and thought no matter what, I wanted my career to involve music. I ended up getting some work experience at RBX, and then through my auntie, got another week’s work experience at Metropolis studios. Then after this I went back to RBX and asked for another weeks work experience. At the end of that I suggested to the studio that as part of the dole, the government would pay my wage for 3 months as a kind of apprenticeship. The rest is history, and I landed my first job in a studio. I worked at RBX for nearly 2 years, and worked on ad jingles, jazz bands, and would record FReeZA battle of the bands winners on the weekend to practice what I saw in the studio. During my time working at RBX I was working hard and having a lot of funs still performing, and was slowly dreading my hair. Because RBX worked on a lot of more corporate job, the studio manager said that I needed to cut my hair or leave. He may have seen that my passions lied elsewhere, or really didn’t like my hair, ether way, I left. I was aware of another up and coming studio called Sing Sing (which was also in Richmond) and had worked at RBX for 1 day with the Sing Sing owner Kaj Dahlstrom. I reached out and he just happened to be looking for another studio assistant, and I landed a job there. I worked pretty much full time (as a freelancer) at Sing Sing for the next 20 years. In my time at Sing Sing I had the opportunity to work with Kiss, The Living End, Powderfinger, Midnight Oil, Kylee Minogue, The Killers, Will I Am, Aaliyah, The Dirty Three, Cat Power, Big Scary, The Smith Street Band, and on films like Lantana and 2 Hands.