Catalog series

Indian Classical and Bollywood

Rights-cleared, articulation-level recordings of Indian instruments across classical and film traditions, from tabla bols to meend and gamak, captured as controllable acoustic primitives for audio AI.

6 instruments Reference Sessions

Why this series matters

Indian instruments are defined by movement between notes: meend glides, gamak oscillations, sympathetic string resonance, and the stroke vocabulary of tabla bols. General-purpose training data rarely captures these in isolation. This series is designed to make those controls learnable, not merely present.

Raga ornamentation

Bol vocabulary

Articulation-level capture

Provenance-first

What makes it hard to capture

Trained performers fluent in classical technique
Resonant sources: sympathetic strings, tuned drum heads, and reeds
Pitch movement that happens between notes, not on them
Metadata that reflects raga and tala logic, not generic tags

What the series includes

Articulation-level datasets for each instrument: isolated notes, ornaments, and techniques, individually labeled
Reference Sessions: ensemble performances delivered as dry stems, processed stems, and the finished mix, in traditional and contemporary arrangements

Typical use cases

Stroke-level tabla transcription and generation
Pitch-contour modeling for meend and gamak
Style-aware generation across classical and film production
Evaluating how models handle microtonal inflection

Provenance and annotation

Every dataset is documented under the Proteus Standard™: source provenance for each file, written rights assignment from every performer, and per-file SHA-256 checksums with licensed data.

Orpheus annotation is available as an optional layer for teams that need human-aligned control vocabularies.

Previews and licensing

Each dataset starts with a free preview on Hugging Face. Full datasets are licensed at the Research, Startup, or Enterprise tier, and HFA also produces commissioned datasets to a buyer's specification.

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Datasets in this series

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Bansuri

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Isolated bansuri notes and ornaments for modeling breath-driven tone, pitch bends, and raga phrasing.

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Dholak

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Isolated dholak strokes across both heads for modeling stroke articulation and folk and film rhythm patterns.

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Indian Classical and Bollywood

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Harmonium

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Isolated harmonium notes and chords for modeling reed tone, bellows-driven dynamics, and accompaniment voicing.

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Sarangi

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Isolated sarangi notes and bowed ornaments for modeling vocal-like pitch glides and sympathetic string resonance.

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Sitar

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Isolated sitar notes, meend glides, and gamak ornaments for modeling pitch movement and sympathetic string resonance.

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Tabla

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High-resolution bayan and dayan articulations with velocity nuance and classic rhythmic vocabulary.

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Indian Classical and Bollywood

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