ToneStream offers the listener different ways to listen. It may sit near meditation apps, it may seem like a sound bath, but it is neither.

There are no voice-guided sessions. No playlists and no instructions to follow. Instead, ToneStream is a single, continuously evolving stream of harmonically-rich sound, grounded in pure tones unfolding in real time. It's designed specifically for growth and comfort. Because every moment of ToneStream is unique, and people are different, it will land differently for each person listening and will be a highly personalized experience.

It's also different in that you don’t choose a goal. You don’t work on anything. You simply join ToneStream and listen.

The sound meets you where you are—whether you are calm, overwhelmed, focused, or restless. It doesn’t ask you to try harder. It gives your nervous system space to settle on its own.

A key difference to consider: Meditation apps help you do something. ToneStream invites you only to come back, and be, your True Self.

You'll know very soon how bringing ToneStream into your days will begin to change your life. We know that over time listeners report feeling calmer, clearer, more focused and more rested. They notice more fortuitous synchronicity in their lives. They also report feeling that challenges are easier to accept and goals more possible to achieve...that ultimately their lives evolve more naturally. We continue to refine ToneStream in response to those real experiences. ToneStream is an ongoing Evolution of Peace.

ToneStream is not a meditation app. It's different, it's a new frontier in functional sound.

You can expect a noticeable shift.

ToneStream was developed by the creators of the n.o.w. Tone Therapy System, a personal hand-sized meditation aid which introduced a new way of experiencing sound as a direct regulator of the nervous system in just three minutes. ToneStream extends that work as an always evolving, continuously live stream of harmonically structured, functional audio.

Many listeners report the volume of their mental chatter is turned down within minutes and unexpected, deep cleansing breaths are felt. Others notice increased clarity, steadiness, or depth of rest. ToneStream does not instruct or guide you, and there are no words—it works more subtly, allowing your system to organize itself in response to harmonic sound that is inherently and naturally organized.

With ToneStream there is nothing to perform and nothing to achieve. You enter, listen and let the sounds do what they designed to do: foster increased awareness of safety, order, presence and possibility. When the nervous system of one person settles something at large begins to shift. Reactions soften. Choices become clearer.

This is how peace can truly evolve—first within a person, then between people, and gradually in the world around us.

It’s very easy. There is no single right way to use ToneStream.

First, listen for a few seconds and set your device's volume to what is comfortable with the loudest "strike tones" you hear. Perhaps adjust your volume up or down once. Then leave your volume set and allow the dynamic volume of ToneStream to unfold (and accept the intrusions of the sounds around you as part of the total ToneStream experience). There are not really many other choices to make beyond deciding to listen, setting your volume, and listening.

Use headphones, earbuds, or speakers. A wired connection offers better sound than Bluetooth. But ToneStream over Bluetooth is better than no ToneStream. Try to avoid listening to ToneStream over a mobile phone's speakers (they don't handle the rich sound of ToneStream well). Note: A two-speaker system where speakers can be separated in a room is a wonderful listening experience. You can play it through speakers in your home, studio, classroom, or treatment room. ToneStream is all yours.

You can listen alone; or quietly let ToneStream play in the background while you work; or listen intentionally as a moment of pause as you practice intentional attention-giving.

When played casually in an environment it is a beautiful modulation of a space, and aural scent or aural glow. And while listening deeply, with focus? ToneStream may become very, very interesting––a transportive journey listeners report.

ToneStream is also designed to be shared. Friends, families, or communities can choose to listen at the same time, even across distance, knowing they are hearing the same evolution of peace in that moment. Though it is just a simple act of listening, this simultaneously shared experience can create a powerful sense of connection.

Our users play ToneStream in yoga classes, meditation groups, massage sessions, schools, and therapeutic settings. Others use it privately for focus, mental reset, sleep, meditation, and along with exercise, chores and shopping.

Enter whenever you wish. Just tap the Solu arcs to play. Stay as long as you like while the sounds unfold for you. It is supposed to be just this easy.

ToneStream IS for everyone and anyone, and YES, all (even non-humans like horses, dogs and cats) can benefit.

• It is for those with an established inner-work practice and for those who have never tried one
• For meditators and non-meditators. For yogis and non-yogis
• For those seeking focus, rest, steadiness, or better sleep
• For those feeling overwhelmed
• For those simply wanting to feel more at ease
• And for those who know that peace can evolve—beginning within, and shared quietly among listeners across the world

ToneStream requires no belief, no skill, and no prior experience. But it compliments beliefs, skills and lived experience beautifully––functioning as an integrative bridge across them all.

ToneStream can be listened to through headphones or over speakers. For those who cannot hear, handheld bluetooth speakers provide coherent vibrations that can be felt. Just as peace is not limited to a type of person, ToneStream welcomes all and invites deep change and restoration of balance.

The Evolution of Peace can begin wherever it is welcomed. ToneStream powerfully and beautifully provides this environment for you, and a globally shared experience for all.

Similar to achieving the benefits of physical exercise, ToneStream works in large part because you'll listen to it. But unlike exercise, it’s easy, beautiful and designed to work with you without you doing anything much more than just be with the sounds.

Years of pioneering work in functional sound have culminated in ToneStream. In 2016 Michael Joly and Alene Sibley started the work that produced the n.o.w. Tone Therapy System—an analog, pure-tone personal audio device that introduced a new category of functional sound––a two-speaker, handheld meditation aid. It’s being used by tens of thousands of listeners worldwide. ToneStream is built upon that foundation.

At the core of ToneStream are pure sine wave, harmonically-structured tones tuned to 432 Hz—considered by many listeners to be the most natural and accessible reference tuning standard for the mind and body. The tones, fortified by additional sounds, are continually arranged in real time. All original sounds for ToneStream are created through analog, hand-built or specially modified instruments, each recorded with intention and precision.

And while hundreds of individual tone sequence elements are pre-recorded, what the listener hears is never preassembled. ToneStream draws from these elements dynamically, forming new harmonic intersections and subtle beat frequencies moment by moment––making each moment unique and never-repeating. This can make the present moment feel safe and familiar, but intriguingly new. And that can translate to all moments encountered as life is lived.

At times, a vocal layer enters the stream, integrated as another tonal instrument, adding depth, warmth, and human resonance to the evolving field of sound.

No sequence is fixed. The composition and arrangement unfolds continuously, never repeating in the same way twice.

The production of ToneStream is dynamic and unlike anything before it. We believe it to be the world's first always-on, live-streaming, continuously evolving "album" that can be listened to almost anywhere, anytime, by anyone and the experience shared with others simultaneously.

Michael Joly brings decades of experience studying sound, making recordings and designing audio products. His work has led him to create physical and virtual sonic structures that are precise, open-form and responsive. Alene Sibley brings a deeply intuitive response and guidance to shape Solu and all of its delivered experiences so they remain accessible, easy-to-use and deeply felt.

And importantly: in ToneStream, the listener is not separate from the sound—the experience forms in the meeting between the two. The listener is essential. Peace is only a concept until it is embodied.

We're glad you asked!

One of our core intentions with ToneStream is to keep aids to peace and mindful presence as affordable as possible. When individuals thrive, the collective benefits—and we've made ToneStream easy to have and easy to share.

ToneStream offers two subscription options and two gift options, making it simple to have for yourself and to give as a meaningful, transformative gift. Our plan is for all people to feel the ripple that grows from this new space of calm.

ToneStream truly is The Evolution of Peace.

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Monthly: $9.99
Annual: $69.99

GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS
3 Months: $24.99
6 Months: $69.99

"Live Streaming" is the standard listening mode in ToneStream. You'll hear a live, composed-and-arranged-in-the-moment ToneStream. This is the ToneStream that thousands of listeners worldwide listen to at the same time.

"Legacy Tones" is a single, off-line, audio file of an earlier period of ToneStream's history. The file is stored on the listener's device and is available for off-line listening when there is no Internet connection to receive the Live Stream (in a subway or rural location, say); or if you want to hear an earlier time in ToneStream's past that is more focused on Solu's classic "strike tone" sound that does not have the newer, more gentle and immersive content of the live ToneStream designed for longer duration listening.

So "Legacy Tones" = an older, repeating, 20 minute sound file, not streaming.

"Live ToneStream" = a composed-and-arranged-in-the-moment-of-play, always new, live stream. This is the normal, "default" mode of the ToneStream app.

There are several classes of sounds heard: Metallophones, reed flutes, eBow and finger-picked guitars and drone beds made from those instruments.

This is Michael Joly writing, I’m the sound artist who made what you hear in ToneStream. I'll walk you through some of the ToneStream sound world.

Metallophones––

These are custom-tuned, mallet-struck tone bars set into individual wooden resonating chambers. When struck, they can produce either a sharp "ding" or a softer "thunk" depending how they were played, or if I used a strike-softening cloth between the bars and the mallets. These are the same instruments heard in our original (2017), ground-breaking n.o.w. Tone Therapy System.

The "strike tones" function as sharp calls to come back to the present, now. Then long, resonant decay tones provide a gentle glide or float from one moment to the next that allow the sound field to be perceptually studied as the mind's thoughts are quieted. I learned many years ago that I cannot pay deep attention to sounds and think at the same time. You may notice something similar.

Reed Flutes––

I created a range of melodic, harmonic and short single tone fog signal sounds with Japanese knot weed flutes. I collected these large, bamboo-like reeds from Cape Cod, to Westerly, RI to Pemaquid and Lubec, Maine then made them into transverse flutes, some with quite deep fundamental pitches.

So you will hear my recreations of extinct pneumatic fog signals, vocal-like harmonic clouds and occasional "melodic islands-in-the-stream" using reed flutes. The reed flute fog horn sounds are especially dear to me...

...pneumatic fog signals were in use from approximately 1929 through the late 1980’s on the US coasts. Their characteristic deep main tone followed by an after-tone “grunt” were part of the acoustic signature of coastal Maine where my earliest childhood sound memories were formed (see my blog posts at this site for more).

I recreated these now-extinct sounds with my Japanese knot weed flutes that were then further pitched-shifted down an octave in my audio workstation to recover the deep booming-and-distant feel of the coastal fog signals of my youth.

The fog horn sounds you hear are an essential, foundational aspect of ToneStream––for me, they anchor ToneStream in feelings of home, safety, wonder and order. They also call to me as brothers, always suggesting there is a large world to explore, and an even larger infinity "out there". Listeners report similar feelings.

EBow and Finger Picked Electric and Acoustic Guitars––

An Ebow is a handheld oscillator the excites metal guitar strings to produce violin and cello-like bowed tones. When you hear slow sustained tones or melodies, either in the high violin or low cello registers you're mostly likely hearing an Ebow-driven electric or acoustic guitar (unless I played a reed flute with an exceptionally smooth "straight tone" with no vibrato in the soprano range).

The woody, harp-like arpeggios you hear were finger picked on an all-mahogany, 12-fret, parlour guitar set up with flat-wound nickel strings.

Drone Beds or "Pads"

The lower volume level, sustained "harmonic clouds" were made by using all my go-to instruments described above. The drones provide a resting place that is also moving you along. I picture resting on a comfy rafting floating on the ToneStream.

They also establish a lower level sound-floor so you'll know ToneStream is on and playing (though there are also intentional silences of 4-8 seconds, rarely longer, that function as pauses between tracks on a record album).

And finally, the harmonic clouds bring a near constant aura of naturally-occurring truth, beauty and goodness to your world. The harmonic series is how a lot of matter is organized, and we inherently recognize harmonically-intonated sounds as a kind of truth, beauty and goodness.

So...everything you hear is a real, analog instrument played by me, then edited and processed for spatial depth and movement.

I love these sounds and I hope you will too. You're welcome to write and give us your impressions.

Yes! Now ToneStream is available as an iOS app, an Android app AND as a browser-based app.

So, for example, with one subscription...you can listen on your iPhone, your iPad and the browser on your MacBook. And same for Android users...with one subscription you can listen on your Android mobile phone, Android tablet or a Windows-based laptop.

We did this to maintain the pocket-sized convenience of a mobile phone plus now support the use of desktop and laptop computers in therapeutic settings––talk therapy, body work, yoga studios ...