Adams: Nixon in China: Act I, Scene 2 - "Like the Ming Tombs."

Recording by John Adams.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USNO18817712
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1996-11-01
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xbcb38543a9c4ad90b9f46d1acb08bdedc78134039e62a2aa544da89017e91519
Copyright registration time
2026-07-06T04:58:49+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-06T06:56:49Z
Bitcoin block
956889
Canonical record hash
sha256:26f734aeeb39e38dcfbbee3447f803fae028519d7d058af2726565ece4527aba

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1996, 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.