Variations II

Recording by John Cage.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USB8U1021145
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2011-04-01
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x38c4d6b740561c3d721e2757a963fb2595467b8a5c71cba72d80f64ffe3b07c3
Copyright registration time
2026-07-07T16:01:42+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:f33b94e424a44ab8d6bb89c9d2f327e6d72a8ccd7279f9acca0e1bdc09c378c5

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2011, 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.