Jim LeBrecht

Sound designers tend to till narrow fields. Specialists to begin with, they generally make careers in either film or television. Jim LeBrecht's story is a bit different. The San Francisco resident--he was raised in Westchester County, NY, but moved out west to study acoustics at the University of California at San Diego in the early 1970s--has extensive experience in theatre, film, and multimedia work. He is also the co-author (with composer Deena Kaye) of Sound and Music for the Theatre: the