Drift background music with no task attached
Every other mode in StillTune is built around a job: Focus sits behind work, Sleep winds down toward unconsciousness, Relax bridges the two. Drift is built around not having a job. It sits deliberately in the middle of the engine's settings, brighter than Sleep, darker than Focus, with bells rare enough to stay out of the way and a filter that drifts slowly rather than settling anywhere. That drifting filter is where the mode's name comes from, and it's StillTune's take on what most people would just call ambient music.
Tuned to sit in a room, not lead it
There is a real name for what this mode is trying to be. Environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan called it soft fascination in their 1980s research on attention and restoration: the quality that makes watching clouds or listening to a fountain restful rather than effortful, engaging enough to hold loose attention without ever demanding it. The bell chance here is one in eight, lower than Relax's one in two and Focus's similar rate, but higher than Deep Sleep's near-silence. What that produces in practice is a texture that rarely asks to be noticed and almost never goes fully silent either. It is closer to weather than to music with a foreground.
A slower kind of movement
The filter sweeps on roughly a forty-five-second cycle, slower than Focus's twenty-two-second pacing and Relax's thirty-three, but faster than Deep Sleep's near-static drift. The chord progression cycles the same four voicings Sleep uses, just without Sleep's narrowing filter pulling everything down toward silence. It keeps moving without building toward anything.
The one mode built around your own texture choice
Drift runs from a Sound DNA recipe like every other mode, but with less of an intended default:
- Working with something in the background. Pink or brown noise at a low level fills a quiet room without competing with anything.
- Company for a task you are half doing. Raise the bells a little and it starts to lean toward Relax without fully becoming it.
- An open window, a fire, the sea. Any of the weather textures sit naturally under this mode's wider, less directional space.
- Nothing extra at all. Turn every texture down and it is just the drone and pad, which is closer to what most people mean by "ambient music" as a genre in the first place.
Save whatever combination works, or start from something already built: the Drift sounds library has published recipes from other people using this mode the same way.
Runs as long as you leave it
Nothing here is a downloaded loop. StillTune stores the score and performs it on your device, so a Drift session can run for an entire workday or a long flight without repeating a section or needing a connection past the first load.
Hear what "no task" actually sounds like
Press play below. If it turns out you want something with more direction, both focus music and relaxation music run on the same engine. No account is needed to listen.