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John Bura was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Throughout his life
John has had an appetite for music. Learning the guitar at age nine,
he began to strum Beatles songs almost immediately. In high school
John started to compose jazz standards and wrote music for wind
instruments. John has played in countless bands and toured in the
Edmonton Fringe Festival production of Eating Raoul as the guitar and
everything else guy.

John has realized music for many different mediums such as orchestra,
wind ensemble, jazz band and chamber groups. He also has had works
played professionally by orchestras. His orchestra piece "Laughing at
the Abacus" was premiered in February 2008. He also has composed
Guacamolage! a work for concert band.

John's debut album, Darwin's One (2008), takes video game music to
unusual places. It features many different styles of electronic-based
music such as metal, techno, rock, and industrial music. Each 'song'
on this album has sound bridges between them called Interplays. The
songs have typical song structures with melodies, phasing, and
contrasting sections. The interplays have more repetition and are less
contrasting. Darwin's One has all the elements of video game music:
computer synthesized sounds, sound effects and high intensity music.
This is the first of a series interpreting video game music.