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Ray Alan Marks & Robert Jackson Marks II, the Brothers Marks, are the Yuri Wirt Experience - named after their great uncle, Yuri Wirt Marks. Yuri's brothers were Toy Doy Marks and Bob & Ray's grandfather, Opal Tim Marks. Yuri Wirt later in life changed his name to Bill. Opal changed his name to Jim. Uncle Toy remained Uncle Toy.

The Yuri Wirt Experience contains joint venture audio work by the Bob & Ray recorded in Cleveland and Seattle.

• Tunes
  • The Boltzmann Machine Rap Around - Click HERE (2.9 MB)
    • Factoid: The Boltzmann Machine, named for Nobel Laureate Ludwig Boltzmann, is a type of artificial neural network trained with simulated annealing. In this tune, The Boltzmann Machine - from the land of the burning river - rap about the mathematical proposition of turning a negative into a positive.  It is the first and only attempt of the Yuri Wirt Experience at doing rap..
  • Boiled Asparagus - Click HERE (2.3 MB)
    • Factoid: This song is based on a true story.  Joshua just would not eat his asparagus.  The vocals on this vegetable hate song are voiced by a young Marilee Melodie Marks in her first hit recording with The Yuri Wirt Experience.
  • Theme from Theater of the Ears - Click HERE. (1.6 MB). This is Bob's favorite instrumental.
  • The Sonya Glosclosnovitch Spontaneous Kazoo Band Incident - Click HERE (3.7 MB).
• Songs for Bob's Kids: Bob wrote songs for each of his children. 
  • Click HERE for `Till Jeremiah Moved to Our Home (3.8MB)
    • Factoid: This is Jeremiah's.  And yes. That is really the crying of baby Jeremiah.
  • Click HERE for Joshua The Yazoo Kid
    • Factoid: This is Joshua's song.  Little Joshua was font of running down the hall at full bore yelling "YAZOOOOoooooo...".
  • Marilee Melodie is in MidiMarks.
    • Factoid: Marilee's song.  Light and feminine.  Like Marilee.
• Theater of the Ears
  • Click HERE for information about Bob & Ray's Theater of the Ears productions.

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