Musician Turns Rain Drops Into Otherworldly Music

Japanese digital artist Yugo Nakamura created this piece, called Amaoto no Yurai (The Origin of The Sound of Rain). This composition breaks a rainstorm down into its smallest part—the drop of water—and then builds it back up again. From Vice.com:

He painstakingly recorded a series of individual water droplets splashing onto various objects—rocks, leaves, fingers, a snail—and then stitched them together. He layered the droplet tracks one on top of the other, slowly building up until they were replicated over 10 million times. As the layers grow, picking out each individual sound becomes more difficult, and the overarching storm becomes the only audible sound.

This piece shows the connection between the “micro” and the “macro” of water. Enjoy!