I’ve always been drawn to the power of sound. Music was a constant in my childhood home—instruments were everywhere. Jazz would waft into every room at any moment through my dad’s enormous speakers, as would my mom’s voice singing her way through our home. That was my normal. Sound, melody, became my safe space: soothing, uplifting—a haven. In retrospect, that I would wind up working in clinical sound seems fated. I discovered early on that music could change me from one moment to the next, and I knew there was something profound in that. I knew that music had the...