BBC Steve Davis practices with his modular synthesizer ahead of his gig at Brecon cathedral Back when there were less UK tv channels than non-red balls on a snooker table, Steve Davis was king of the green baize. He was the gamer lotsof liked to dislike, with his emotionless, robotic design making him a family name who won 6 world titles throughout the 80s. That exactsame “uninteresting” personality was even lampooned by well-known ITV puppet program Spitting Image – a suspicious honour normally booked for heads of state, top ranking politicalleaders and Hollywood stars. Who then would haveactually predicted Davis ultimately rebrand as one of the nation’s top DJs, carryingout allover from the Glastonbury Festival to supporting Britpop giants Blur at Wembley Stadium? Not just that, the 66-year-old Londoner will likewise be appearing at the 40th Brecon Jazz Festival this weekend. There he will be signedupwith by veteran musical partner Gaz Williams, the duo appealing an “utterly distinct” immersive noise and light experience at the town’s cathedral on Saturday, 10 August. But rather than a set of turntables, both will be playing a modular synthesizer – to the unaware, a complicated box of changes, dials, sliders and wires – to develop hypnotic soundscapes of loops, samples drones and textures. “What we do isn’t jazz as such, however we are improvising and that’s extremely jazz-like,” stated Davis, who
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