Claire L. Evans &
Jona Bechtold are two people who venture in
music,
art &
business. As
YACHT they make electronic music that feels unelectronic, spreading a message of kindness and positivity.
"Is life tough?"
Yeah, life is tough.
It doesn't have to be difficult physically, but life is tough psychically. There are glaringly obvious, tragic misunderstandings going on between people everywhere all the time, and there just aren't enough sane people to go around sorting it all out.
We had a realization recently: all the things which are doomed about humanity -- that we are territorial, prone to infighting, defensive, vulnerable, small-minded -- are the same things which cause problems in interpersonal relationships. There's no difference between the conflicts of individuals and those of the whole, other than scale. Our domestic arguments are rooted in the same human insecurities that cause wars. It's easy to be discouraged by this, and, to be honest, the only way to overcome it is to completely ignore it.
It's kind of like how when we saw The Matrix and didn't understand why you'd want to "wake up" in the first place. If your mind is content, self-sufficient, then why force your body into the unpleasantness of actual reality?
That's essentially the basis of our work.
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