AIR Artist Sandbox
AIR is the French electronic pioneer duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Their debut EP Premiers Symptômes was followed by the critically acclaimed album Moon Safari, The Virgin Suicides score, and subsequently albums 10 000 Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, Talkie Walkie, Pocket Symphony, Love 2, and Le Voyage Dans La Lune.
You have access to AIR's entire release history, as well as photos, posters, biographies, multi-language press releases, interview transcripts, high res layered artwork, music videos, video interviews, EPKs, TV ads, webtool templates and more, all detailing the duo’s remarkable career. The band’s lunar fixations have been evident since the seminal 1998 classic Moon Safari and they have now returned with the brand new and unique Le Voyage Dans La Lune – their full album soundtrack for the eponymous legendary 1902 film, one of the most important works in film history.
The historic audio catalogue and array of breathtaking graphics on offer lend themselves to the creation of a visually stunning and interactive app to showcase AIR’s unparalleled career. Take the next “giant leap” and bring a new interactive dimension to AIR’s celestial fascinations!
Read the developer pack.
Available Assets
- 66 audio albums, EPs and multi-track singles – representing AIR’s entire career, including EPs, remixes and rarities albums
- 16 official video singles – including all iconic music videos and the “Eating Sleeping Waiting And Playing” documentary about AIR’s 1998 North American & European tour.
- 119 promotional videos – live performances, EPKs, bonus films, and TV adverts available in various video encode qualities.
- 244 artwork files - layered, editable or high resolution artwork for the full audiovisual back-catalog.
- 139 high res press photos and video stills.
- 59 promotional graphics – including layered posters, logos, press ads, and album / DVD booklets.
- 23 biographies and multi-language press releases detailing AIR’s career.
- Webtools including webpage and banner templates, vector logos, wallpapers, layered artwork and more.
Rights & Responsibilities
Working with the AIR Artist Sandbox provides a developer access to unique content, but this access comes with some rights and responsibilities.
As a developer you are free to use this content to hone and test your ideas, but the content may not be used in any commercial or real world application without permission from EMI and its partners. There is an approval process that must be adhered to for any application or service. Please do not invest your time building an application or service without first understanding this approval process. For more information, see the FAQ.
Access to Sandbox
To gain access to each sandbox, you must request it from The Echo Nest. After requesting access, we will contact you both to ensure that we have valid contact information, and to ensure that you understand the rights and responsibilities of using this data.
You will need to agree that you will not redistribute any assets you are granted access to. You will not be allowed to use these assets, in either commercial or non-commercial fashion, other than to develop prototypes, mockups and betas to be reviewed and approved by The Echo Nest and EMI.
Once access has been granted, you will receive a special key that can be used to retrieve the Sandbox assets described above.
This key grants access for prototyping use only.
Once you have access to the sandbox, you can review the API documentation, make calls to view the contents of the sandbox, and begin building your application concepts. We have an EMI Sandbox Developer Guide that will help you understand the API.
Approval Process for Application Development
Before you begin developing in earnest, you must provide a Product Brief describing the particular product you'd like to build. It is incumbent on you to provide this before spending too much time; application concepts will need to be reviewed by The Echo Nest, EMI, and in some cases by the artist themselves. This review and approval must happen before a product can be brought to market.
To sign up for a sandbox, you must first register for an Echo Nest API key.
To begin the approval process, please apply for access to the appropriate sandbox. You should then prepare a proposal, and submit it to emi-proposals@echonest.com.
Please keep your proposal to no more than 2 pages of 10 point text.
In your proposal, you need to detail:
- Sandbox/artist
- Description of application or service
- Specific content to be used
- Proposed platform(s)
- Target market (age, demographics, geographic-location, etc)
- Business model, and proposed price point if applicable
- List any similar applications or services already available/your competition
- The Echo Nest APIs to be used
- Other APIs to be used
- Estimated build time
EMI and The Echo Nest will need to review application concepts, betas, and final launch. Once your application is approved, EMI will be the publisher; you will need to make your source code available to EMI for review.
Commercialization
Applications or services that are created using EMI content should be commercial in that they should provide revenues for the partners involved; this includes you as a developer, along with The Echo Nest, EMI and other rights holders. This is the way you will be paid for your work. The business model is up to you, but make sure it is viable.