H-lounge.com Announces Hyperscore(R) Ringtone Competition Judged by U2's Edge and MIT Luminaries

CAMBRIDGE, MA
H-Lounge, the online social networking site for making and sharing music, today announced its inaugural ringtone competition. The Competition leverages the site's award-winning Hyperscore® software, which lets users not only listen to and share music, but also create and collaborate with fellow H-Loungers of all ages via web and mobile phone. The Competition winners, to be announced at the end of the month and honored at a ceremony on the MIT campus, will receive cash and prizes from Boston-area sponsors including The Lyons Group, Avalon Club, and H-Lounge.

"I'm excited to be taking part in H-Lounge's Ringtone Competition," commented Edge, guitarist with U2. "Ringtones are a legitimate branch of Pop music and this is a great opportunity for up-and-coming songwriters to create something designed specifically for the medium."

Hyperscore® Ringtone Competition Details

Who: Universe of 20,000+ undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, alumni, staff, family members and others around the world who are affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Entrants to both the "undergraduate" and "other" categories must have an MIT e-mail address.

What: Create and submit a ringtone using Hyperscore®, a graphical music composition tool, which allows people of all ages to compose music without having any background in music. (Editors' Note: See accompanying 1/11/06 press release about company debut and Hyperscore®.)

When: Submissions accepted online at http://www.hlounge.com beginning today and through midnight on 1/21/2006. Winners announced at Award Ceremony to be held at MIT's Stata Center, Room 32-123, in Cambridge on January 27, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.

Judges:

• The Edge -- Guitarist, U2
  
• Tod Machover -- MIT Professor and H-Lounge Chairman - Called
  "America's most wired composer" by the Los Angeles Times; awarded some of the world's most prestigious prizes for his music and inventions.
  
• Marvin Minsky -- Professor Emeritus at MIT; Father of Artificial
  Intelligence.
  
• Mary Farbood -- Author of Hyperscore software and CTO of H-Lounge - An accomplished composer, pianist, and award-winning harpsichordist.
  

About H-Lounge

H-Lounge is part of Harmony Line, Inc., a company devoted to bringing out the musical creativity in everyone. Harmony Line, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corp established in 2004. Unlike other social networking sites, h-lounge.com isn't simply a site developed for a passing profile and conversation. The site offers a new mode of self-expression, which provides young computer surfers and casual musicians alike an invaluable opportunity to make and share their own music using Hyperscore®, the easiest do-it-yourself groove-writing software on the planet. Founded by Tod Machover, Professor of Music and Media at MIT and celebrated composer/inventor, and his team at the MIT Media Lab, the Company launched H-Lounge in late 2005.

Contacts:

Richard Resnick
Harmony Line, Inc.
+1 617-871-6880 x23
Email

Alannah Dibona
Emerge PR
+1 617-729-3182