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Jona Bechtolt (December 2 1980, Astoria, Oregon) is an electronic musician currently residing in Portland, Oregon.
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Bechtolt has been releasing records under the band name YACHT since 2003. In 2006, Bechtolt collaborated with Khaela Maricich as half of the pop group The Blow to release "Paper Television." Bechtolt toured extensively with The Blow providing beats and backup vocals until quitting the band in 2007 in order to focus on his work in YACHT.
In January of 2006, YACHT was commissioned for two performances for the New York based art and technology platform, Rhizome.org, as part of their "Crap-tops vs Laptops" show in New York. In February of 2006 he performed at MoMA\'s PS1 and produced an hour-long internet radio program with Clear Cut Press; a Northwest-based publisher of new literary work. In October of 2006, he performed at the Kitchen in New York as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. He has toured the world extensively as YACHT.
In 2007, YACHT released "I Believe in You, Your Magic is Real" on his label Marriage Records. It was simultaneously released in Europe, Japan, Australia and China. For the release party, Bechtolt performed a concert on an actual yacht[1] on the Willamette River in Portland, OR. During 2007, Bechtolt performed more than 200 concerts on six different continents. "I Believe in You, Your Magic is Real" was named album of the week by the record store chain Rough Trade in the UK.
His live performances include dancing to the music that he has created as well as elaborate Power Point presentations. He documents his professional and sometimes personal life via video, text, and images on his archival blog, teamyacht.com.
Bechtolt is a co-founder of the Portland-based popular blogging web community Urban Honking as well as the producer, editor, cameraman and a writer of The Ultimate Blogger. In 2003, he was commissioned to create a full length audio/visual electronic pop opera by The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), which he performed with his group The Badger King with bandmate M. Ritchey (another Wolf Colonel alum who went on to record alone as Manta, and then Mantar). In 2007, Bechtolt collaborated with Aaron Flint Jamison to create Flickrblockrs, a limited edition satire-based pair of glasses that make a subjects\' eyes unrecognizable in photographs. In 2008, Bechtolt and long-time partner/collaborator Claire. L. Evans created "Airmail" which is a accessory laptop sleeve for Apple\'s Macbook Air.
Bechtolt\'s sound production has also been featured on various television commercials.
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