Jona Bechtolt

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Jona Bechtolt is an electronic musician from Portland, Oregon. He has been releasing records under the name "YACHT" since 2001. He is one half of the pop duo The Blow, providing beats and music for the vocals of Khaela Maricich. He 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.

Jona Bechtolt is a technological multi talent. His sound and video production can be found generously scattered throughout the internet, and in numerous popular live incarnations. With his project, YACHT, he makes textural dance-based compositions and performances. He documents its movement via video, text, and images on his deeply archival and well-maintained blog, www.teamyacht.com.He was one half of The Blow, a constantly recording and touring pop music duo. 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 2005, he co-created, filmed, directed and edited an internet based reality show, The Ultimate Blogger, on which bloggers from around the world competed to win the illustrious title. Ultimate Blogger 2, which Bechtolt was similarly involved in, aired in March of 2006. In January of 2006 he 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 United States and Canada extensively with his own projects, as well as a number of other bands.


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