The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction

Recording by Tim Hecker.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
TCABI1218030
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2001-11-20
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x0b7afcc7f9d16dea5770438e23cbf0f7990409e998e40a6d6c1537896a911a56
Copyright registration time
2026-06-08T10:35:31+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T13:32:09Z
Bitcoin block
953520
Canonical record hash
sha256:02ccce3364922208db7e829bd0a6eb8ae3ff92d9d538834a8b650774ec9cef76

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2001, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.