Harmonic Frontier Audio

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

Our mission is to make hard‑to‑source world and folk instruments 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
• 🔄 Full Smallpipes Dataset — in production
• 🎵 Next in line: Highland Bagpipes, Irish Flute, and Low Whistle
• 🌍 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, software, or creative projects, please cite as:

APA style

Pullen, B. (2025). Harmonic Frontier Audio: Smallpipes in A (Preview Pack) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/XXXXX

BibTeX

@dataset{pullen_2025_smallpipes_preview,
  author    = {Pullen, Blake},
  title     = {Harmonic Frontier Audio: Smallpipes in A (Preview Pack)},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.XXXXX},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16909137}
}

🤝 Contributing & Contact

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

For inquiries:

• 📩 Email: [email protected]
• 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakepullen/