Vidna Obmana

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Vidna Obmana
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Dirk Serries (2009)
Background information
Birth nameDirk Serries
Born1968
Origin Belgium
Genres Ambient music
Minimal music
Drone music
Years active1984–2007
Labels ND Records
Hypnos Recordings
Soleilmoon Recordings
Projekt Records
Website

Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music. [1] Serries created music under the Vidna Obmana pseudonym from 1984 until 2007, when he officially retired the name. [2] Most of his current work is released under the Fear Falls Burning pseudonym. [3]

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Vidna Obmana's music has often been described as anamorphic and organic. He uses the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, minimizing the configurations to a few notes. [4]

Vidna Obmana has collaborated on several occasions with artists such as Asmus Tietchens, Brannan Lane, Capriolo Trifoglio, Diego Borotti, and Steve Roach. Some of these collaborations have become entire projects of their own, such as Continuum (collaboration with Bass Communion) and Principle of Silence (collaboration with Joris De Backer).

Vidna Obmana is often cited as one of the more notable dark ambient musicians. [5] [6]

Discography

Solo albums

Opera for Four Fusion Works Series

Collaborations

With Bass Communion

With Big City Orchestra

  • Vidna Obmana & Big City Orchestra (1989), Mechanical Orchestration Music

With Serge Devadder

  • The Shape of Solitude (1999), Multimood

With Alio Die

With Brannan Lane

  • Deep Unknown (2002), Ambient Circle

With Dreams in Exile

  • 2-disc re-release of The River of Appearance (1996) with accompanying all-acoustic re-conceptualization of the album by Dreams in Exile

With Klinik

  • Gluttony (2005), Hands
  • Greed (2006), Hands

With Jan Marmenout

  • Spirits (1999), High Gate Music

With David Lee Myers

  • Tracers (2003), Klanggalerie

With Neurotic Youth

  • Bleeding Wounds / Only Fear Will Survive (1986), Ladd-Frith

With PBK

  • Monument of Empty Colours (1988), The Decade Collection
  • Compositions : Depression & Ideal (1989), Freedom in a Vacuum/PBK Recordings
  • Fragment 3 (1991), N D

With Jeff Pearce

  • True Stories (1999), Mirage

With Steve Roach

  • Well of Souls (1995), Projekt – 2 discs
  • Cavern of Sirens (1997), Projekt
  • Ascension of Shadows (1998), Projekt (limited edition 3-disc set included Somewhere Else, re-released 2005)
  • Live Archive (2000), Groove Unlimited
  • Circles & Artifacts (2000), Contemptary Harmonic
  • InnerZone (2002), Projekt
  • Spirit Dome (2004), Projekt
  • Somewhere Else (2005), Projekt
  • Low Volume Music (2012), Projekt

With Sam Rosenthal

  • Terrace of Memories (1992), Projekt

With Djen Ajakan Shean

With Willem Tanke

  • Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors (1999), Multimood

With Asmus Tietchens

  • The Shift Recyclings (2002), Soleilmoon
  • Motives for Recycling (Linear Writings, Nachtstücke Revisited) (1999), Soleilmoon
  • Untitled Collaboration (1995), Syrenia

Other collaborations

Anthologies

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Vidna Obmana". Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  2. ↑ "Vidna Obmana". Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  3. ↑ "Fear Falls Burning, History" . Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  4. ↑ Vidna Obmana discography
  5. ↑ Phillips, Dave (2004). "Linux Audio Conference 2004 Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 29 April-2 May 2004" . Computer Music Journal. 28 (4): 87–91. doi:10.1162/comj.2004.28.4.87. S2CID   64289367.
  6. ↑ Teresa Gubbins, Vidna Obmana, Dallas Morning News, February 24, 1994
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