John Burton is a name of, at least, two audio artists:

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1) London, UK's Leafcutter John, who débuted on Planet Mu (2000). He is strongly identified with processed instrumental & field recordings. His third album, "The Housebound Spirit" (Jul '03, Planet Mu), won one of Prix Ars Electronica 2004's thirteen 'honorary mentions' & placed in Wire's '2003 Rewind', top 50 records chart.

He writes his own music software, has given talks and exhibited software across Europe (including the ICA) and is also a regular guest speaker at the London College of Communication. He had also a teaching post at DIEM (Danish Institute of Electronic Music) in Aarhus, Denmark during 2005.

John has also been involved in the Contemporary Art scene, with his latest project at the Serpentine Gallery where he was invited by artist Tomoko Takahashi (short-listed for the 2000 Turner prize) and the Serpentine to produce a live show based on Tomoko's solo exhibition. 'My Play-station' was performed in the entire gallery where he turned the installation into a sound source involving 3 live sound collectors and the audience.

Leafcutter John has played live at Festivals and one-off events throughout Europe, emphasising his interest in audience interaction. He has shared bills with Matmos, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Yo La Tengo, Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Onda, Phillip Jeck, Janek Schaefer, Tujiko Noriko and many more.

Leafcutter John plays with the group Polar Bear.

Sites: Discogs, MusicBrainz, Wikipedia, YouTube & LeafcutterJohn.com (artist proprietary site)

2) "The coming moves of God will require nothing short of a revolution of our current structures, models and mindsets. Not an adjustment or an enhancement, but deep reform. The resulting fire and presence of the Holy Spirit will cause us to marvel and wonder why we ever resisted at all."- John Burton

Leadership: John has been involved in pastoral ministry at various levels since 1991. In the 1990's John gave leadership to youth ministries in Dayton, Ohio, San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas.

In 2000, John and Amy moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado and pioneered Revolution Church in one of the nation's darkest cities. Seven years later, they moved to Kansas City to participate in the ministry of the International House of Prayer. They led an internship and regularly travel to speak at conferences and other events.

Additional leadership experience includes leading a city-wide prayer initiative, leading an inner-city youth ministry, serving an international ministry to the 10/40 Window and transitioning a church to a prayer ministry.

Teaching: John and Amy teach in churches, at conferences and camps and other ministry events on a variety of topics including:

* Prophecy, prayer, fulfilled destiny, the ministry of the forerunner, freedom from offense, financial freedom

Consulting: As an apostolic leader with a heart for serving pastors and churches, John consults primarily in the arenas of vision casting, prophetic strategy and realignment with the city church in mind.

Writing: John and Amy have written several books and hold workshops based on each of them. John has been published in ElijahRain Magazine and Revival Nation Magazine and both John and Amy have been interviewed on several radio shows.

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