Our Mission

“I want to thank you for the wonderful gift you have given the world” – Roy Corders

New Harmony Line is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization spun out of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory’s Opera of the Future group. Our vision is to enrich lives by enabling individuals of all ages and backgrounds to engage with music—as active listeners, learners, creators, and connectors. New Harmony Line has licensed Hyperscore technology (previously commercialized by Harmony Line, Inc.) with the goal of further developing and distributing the software for a new generation of music creators.

We seek to partner with individuals and organizations to build and sustain collaborations that promote individuals’ creativity and civic engagement through music.

Projects

“The expressions on the children’s faces were so moving, I will remember the day for the rest of my life. The whole orchestra and I unanimously agree that [Toy Symphony] is one of the most important things we have ever done, and that we will now commit more and more of our time, energy and budget to forwarding…

Hyperscore

“The single coolest thing to happen to music ever.” – Thomas O’Hara, 12, of West Genesee Middle School Hyperscore is software that empowers anyone to compose music! Traditional music notation is abstract and requires years of study to master. It’s an ingenious system, but unfortunately it also keeps millions of people from expressing themselves musically. Hyperscore was…

Hyperscore soars in “A Toronto Symphony”

A Toronto Symphony is the first of composer Tod Machover’s City Symphonies. It was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, who premiered the piece in March 2013. With this project, Machover – who is Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music & Media at the MIT Media Lab – “rethought the symphony as a community event”…