H-Lounge Announces Debut of h-lounge.com

Gives New Depth to Online Social Networking With Ability to Make and
Share Music


CAMBRIDGE, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/11/06 -- H-Lounge, the online
social networking site for making and sharing music, today announced
its formal company and Web site debut. H-Lounge offers not only a
place to meet people and listen to music, but also the opportunity to
create and collaborate with fellow H-Loungers of all ages via web and
mobile phone using the award-winning Hyperscore(r) software for music
composition. (Editors' Note: See 1/11/06 release titled "h-lounge.com
Announces Hyperscore Ringtone Competition Judged by U2's Edge and MIT
Luminaries.")


As the most connected young generation in history surges onto the
Internet in record numbers, they are defining a new social currency by
which to be measured -- their worth to the online communities in which
they participate. Social networking sites allow these content creators
and consumers to hook up with friends, find dates, converse, and share
music, pictures and videos. But as these sites compete for breadth,
one has responded differently -- with depth. H-Loungers start out by
choosing a comic-book like avatar that can be upgraded through site
use, size of fan base, amount of music made, or just how talkative
they are. Using Hyperscore(r), H-Loungers can make and publish their
own musical creations, attract fans, collaborate on music, and fight
for position in the top ten. Music can be sent to mobile phones as
ringtones, and the most popular music is featured not only all over
the site, but also ringing from the phones of H-Loungers across the
US.


"The h-lounge.com community is a new generation known for being highly
creative, expressive and technological -- and using the Internet and
cell phones on a daily basis," said Richard Resnick, CEO, H-Lounge.
"The site isn't developed for just a passing profile and conversation.
It pushes the envelope by offering not only a place to listen to
music, but to also create, collaborate, and hang out with fellow
H-loungers via web and mobile phone."


About Hyperscore(r)


Using Hyperscore(r), the easiest do-it-yourself groove-writing
software on the planet, H-loungers can make and share their own
musical creations. H-Lounge's flagship product, Hyperscore(r), is the
first application that realizes the Company's vision of fostering a
complete musical and artistic online community.


A graphical music composition tool, Hyperscore(r), allows people of
all ages to compose without being able to read a single note.
H-loungers simply draw lines of various colors and shapes across a
computer screen and create music in a variety of styles by making
short musical "motives" and "drawing" them onto a sketchpad with
colored pens. By adjusting line shapes, lengths, colors and positions,
they can readily produce melodies, choose harmonies, control tempo,
and more. Hyperscore(r) lets users play the piece, tinker with
variations, upload it to h-lounge.com to share with others, or send it
to their mobile phone as a ringtone. Each custom ringtone upload costs
$2.


H-Lounge's founders developed Hyperscore(r) through the MIT Media
Lab's Toy Symphony Project, an international music performance and
education project that empowers children and adults to realize modes
of musical creativity and expression using new concepts and
technologies.


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(r), the easiest do-it-yourself groove-writing
software on the planet. Founded by Tod Machover, Professor of Music
and Media at MIT and a celebrated composer/inventor, and his team at
the MIT Media Lab, the Company launched H-Lounge in late 2005.