Harmonic Frontier Audio

Harmonic Frontier Audio (HFA) creates high‑quality datasets of rare and traditional instruments and vocals for use in music information retrieval, generative AI, sound design, and composition.

Harmonic Frontier Audio is founded by Blake Pullen — a creative technologist, filmmaker, producer, and musician, and founder of Harmonic Frontier Audio, Planet Vegas, and Digital Piper’s Lab. Visit Blake's Website - https://blakepullen.com

Our mission is to make hard‑to‑source world and folk instruments and vocals accessible to researchers, developers, and creators by providing:

• Professionally recorded, high‑fidelity audio
• Comprehensive metadata and documentation
• Licensing terms designed for both research and commercial applications
• Full datasets are available for licensing; preview packs are published here for discoverability and research access.

Current & Upcoming Releases

• Smallpipes in A (Preview Pack) — available on Hugging Face and Zenodo
• Highland Bagpipes (Preview Pack) — available on Hugging Face and Zenodo
• Irish Tin Whistle (Whistle in D) (Preview Pack) — available on Hugging Face and Zenodo
• Future expansion: additional world and folk traditions

More Information

• Website: https://harmonicfrontieraudio.com/
• Zenodo Community: https://zenodo.org/communities/mir/
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4527-0178

Citation

If you use Harmonic Frontier Audio datasets in your research, please cite the specific dataset(s) you used.
Each dataset repository includes a DOI and a BibTeX entry in its README.

For a general reference to the project:

Harmonic Frontier Audio (2025). Folk and World Instrument Datasets for Machine Learning.
Available at: https://huggingface.co/Harmonic-Frontier-Audio

BibTeX

@misc{harmonicfrontieraudio2025,
  author       = {Harmonic Frontier Audio},
  title        = {Folk and World Instrument Datasets for Machine Learning},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Harmonic-Frontier-Audio}},
  note         = {General reference for the Harmonic Frontier Audio catalogue. Please also cite specific dataset DOIs as listed in each dataset README.}
}

Contributing & Contact

We welcome collaborations with researchers, developers, and institutions interested in expanding access to world and folk instrument datasets.

For inquiries:

• Email: info@harmonicfrontieraudio.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakepullen/