Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers
A killer Music Director, Composer, Sound Artist, Music Dramaturg and Performance Maker, Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers has been making fearless art to activate, pollinate and liberate for over 25 years. Of Xhosa heritage and living on Yuggera country, Kim creates sonic experiences intersecting disciplines, politics and soundlines with a focus on giving voice to stories which are unseen and unheard. Kim signed her first record deal at sixteen, performing, recording and touring with bands for over a decade - this era has been immortalised via her contribution to Sophie Howath’s Big Day Out book Peace, Love and Brown Rice and her place in the Women Who Rock photographic exhibition of the Melbourne Arts Centre. She is a composer for film, including Amar directed by Fatima Mawas, Love Bites directed by Jermaine D’Vauz (ABC/Screen Australia) and Lawrence Lim’s award winning short Eleven. Composition and Sound Design for theatre credits include Belvoir Street Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Queensland Theatre, La Boite Theatre Company and London’s Roundhouse. Music Direction credits includeEast London West Sydney directed by Breakin’ Convention’s Jonzi D, Polytoxic’s The Rat Trap and she is resident MD for the internationally renowned, award winning Briefs. This beat-making Mama is the Co-Creator, Writer, MD and Queen Bee of the international smash hit Hot Brown Honey. Kim creates across forms commissioned by London’s Wellcome Collection and The Sick of The Fringe for the 2017 installation We Are The Latest Models of Our Ancestry, and was invited to be a part of Barby Asante's work Declaration of Independence for the 2018 Venice Biennale’s Diaspora Pavilion. She is currently making an album with Birri Gubba/Kungalu artist Ancestress and is creating the Soundtrack to The Hot Brown Honey Revolution. Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers is a sound visionary, defying genres and bringing her fierce empowerment to activate museums, galleries, theatres and public spaces, all while leading audiences onto dance floors across the globe.