Adams: Nixon in China: Act III - "I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep"

Recording by John Adams.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USNO18817741
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1996-11-01
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x7897d93ce037eb7d4503071653cc176e0ff62e8bf8b11aa3d0f91f6d76a22d8f
Copyright registration time
2026-07-06T19:06:46+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:985a331c79dfdf975f3b431ea5ed9fdac0780de461a9e6e5007c143cf23eb18e

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.