Early Technologies imagines social media, autotune, and streaming services as artifacts from another era: awkward, romantic, and a little strange at the same time.
Crossing hyperpop, indie rock, metal, and electronics, each track tells a different story about technology and everyday digital life.
Since 2018, Jiafeng has developed his own approach to browser-based live performance, which he calls Web DJ. Instead of using conventional DJ software, he performs entirely inside a web browser, moving between YouTube videos, field recordings, online generators, live streams, acapellas, and music from different genres and regions.
The set is assembled in real time across multiple tabs. Tracks are not always beat-matched; Jiafeng controls the pacing by opening, layering, interrupting, and switching between different sources. The browser window is projected for the audience, so navigating the internet, searching, buffering, and unexpected moments all become visible parts of the performance.
Watch the full setSound, publishing and performance.
Instruments and experiments to play with.
Turn everyday typing into a Bach performance.
Play jazz with a camera and your hands.
A playful approach to DJ performance.
A performance sampler for mixing, chopping, and sequencing audiovisual clips live.
Jiafeng 高嘉丰 is a Shanghai-based singer, producer, digital artist, and developer working across experimental pop, club music, sound art, and music technology.
His practice moves between songs, live performance, browser-based instruments, AI music systems, Web-DJ performance formats, and institution-facing sound work. Projects have been presented at art spaces and festivals including the Power Station of Art, Tank Shanghai, Shenzhen Theatre Biennale, and EMS Stockholm. His NTS Radio appearances include a live Web-DJ set from Shanghai and a guest slot on Bloodz Boi's show. His work has also appeared in AVYSS, Dazed, Mixmag, and Rate Your Music.
A recipient of the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition award, Jiafeng is also among the early Chinese artists to connect AI, NFTs, and pop songwriting. His work treats technology less as novelty than as a way to bend voice, emotion, authorship, and everyday digital life into new forms of popular expression. He holds an M.A. in Music Technology from New York University.
An album you can play with your feet. A USB dance pad, the digital album, and a download of the StepMania-based rhythm game.
A lyric made wearable. A black T-shirt named after Jiafeng's song, with custom Chinese lettering by Italian designer Kenshiro Caravaggio Carena.