For a sound designer like Ali Lacey, instruments don't necessarily have to be instruments."A tin bath wasn't made to be beaten," Lacey says in Storm+Shelter's "Portrait of a Sound Design Artist", "but it sounds amazing. So why not?"The four-minute sonic profile is definitely worth a peek. It's a quiet look inside the yard equipment- and appliance-heavy palette that is the sound designer's decidedly low-tech toolkit, and is almost pained in its reserved tedium. Can you imagine the sort of discipline it takes to sample the same bathtub mallet tap or sledgehammer strike over and over and over again, holed up there in a small shed, long after the initital feelies (or the longer-lingering rushes of destroying something) wear off?"I know I look mad hitting a bath over and over again, but it's fun," Lacey admites.And if anything, it might add to that case for an Instagram of sounds.@thebanderson