Muted Raindrops

In the distant recesses of your ear, you hear the soft pitter patter of rain stumbling upon some spot of earth or stone, you can't be certain. The discordant pattern of the drops seems to speak of some uncertainty in the sky, a cloud not quite sure if it wants to let go of itself and spend the next million years buried in the earth. A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the lower end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop. Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a vapor or by atomization of a larger mass of liquid. The major source of sound when a droplet hits a liquid surface is the resonance of excited bubbles trapped underwater. These oscillating bubbles are responsible for most liquid sounds, such as running water or splashes, as they actually consist of many drop-liquid collisions. The classic shape associated with a drop (with a pointy end in its upper side) comes from the observation of a droplet clinging to a surface. The shape of a drop falling through a gas is actually more or less spherical. Larger drops tend to be flatter on the bottom part due to the pressure of the gas they move through. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=124173