Vidna Obmana
Vidna Obmana 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. Serries created music under the Vidna Obmana pseudonym from 1984 until 2007, when he officially retired the name. Most of his current work is released under the Fear Falls Burning pseudonym.
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.
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 and Principle of Silence.
Vidna Obmana is often cited as one of the more notable dark ambient musicians.
Discography
Solo albums
The Ultimated Sign of Burning Death Therapie OrganisatieExperience Artaud - Soundtrack for Experimental Theatre, Mechanical Orchestration MusicDeathchamber - Trancedreamed Mechanical Orchestration MusicGathering in frozen beauty, The Decade CollectionNear the flogging landscape, VioletGlassOracle TapesRefined on gentle clouds, Direct MusicPassage in Beauty, ProjektShadowing in Sorrow, ProjektEnding Mirage, ProjektEchoing Delight Revealed by composed nature, Hic Sunt LeonesThe Spiritual Bonding ExtremeThe Transcending Quest, AmplexusThe River of Appearance, ProjektTwilight of Perception, ProjektCrossing the Trail, ProjektLandscape in obscurity, Hypnos - with Capriolo Trifoglio and Diego BorottiThe Surreal Sanctuary, HypnosThe Contemporary Nocturne, HypnosSubterranean Collective, ProjectSoundtrack for the Aquarium, HypnosTremor, Relapse/ReleaseIsolation Trip/Path of Distortion, Klanggalerie Spore, RelapseLegacy, Relapse''Opera for Four Fusion Works'' Series
An Opera for Four Fusion Works- * Act One: Echoes of Steel with Dreams in Exile, Hypnos
- * Act Two: Phrasing the Air with Bill Fox, Hypnos
- * Act Three: Reflection on Scale with Kenneth Kirchner, Hypnos
- * Act 4, Hypnos
Collaborations
With [Bass Communion]
Continuum I, Soleilmoonthe continuum recyclings, volume one, Tonefloat Continuum II, Soleilmoonthe continuum recyclings, volume two, TonefloatWith [Big City Orchestra]
Vidna Obmana & Big City Orchestra, Mechanical Orchestration MusicWith [Serge Devadde]r
The Shape of Solitude, MultimoodWith [Alio Die]
Echo Passage, Musica Maxima Magnetica; Projekt RecordsWith [Brannan Lane]
Deep Unknown, Ambient CircleWith [Dreams in Exile]
- 2-disc re-release of The River of Appearance with accompanying all-acoustic re-conceptualization of the album by Dreams in Exile
With [Klinik]
Gluttony, HandsGreed, HandsWith [Jan Marmenout]
Spirits, High Gate MusicWith David Lee Myers
Tracers, KlanggalerieWith [Neurotic Youth]
Bleeding Wounds / Only Fear Will Survive, Ladd-FrithWith PBK">PBK (composer)">PBK
Monument of Empty Colours, The Decade CollectionCompositions : Depression & Ideal, Freedom in a Vacuum/PBK RecordingsFragment 3, N DWith Jeff Pearce">Jeff Pearce (American artist)">Jeff Pearce
True Stories, MirageWith Steve Roach">Steve Roach (musician)">Steve Roach
Well of Souls, Projekt – 2 discsCavern of Sirens, ProjektAscension of Shadows, Projekt Live Archive, Groove UnlimitedCircles & Artifacts, Contemptary HarmonicInnerZone, ProjektSpirit Dome, ProjektSomewhere Else, ProjektLow Volume Music, ProjektWith [Sam Rosenthal]
Terrace of Memories, ProjektWith [Djen Ajakan Shean]
Parallel Flaming, MultimoodStill Fragments, NDWith [Willem Tanke]
Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors, MultimoodWith [Asmus Tietchens]
The Shift Recyclings, SoleilmoonMotives for Recycling , SoleilmoonUntitled Collaboration, SyreniaOther collaborations
Zero Point, The Foundry - by Seofon with Thermal, Stephen Kent, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Not BreathingMusic for Exhibiting Water with Contents – Soundtrack for the Aquarium Antwerp ZOO - Split with HybridsA Thunder Orchestra / Vidna Obmana, Ladd-Frith - Split release with A Thunder Orchestra- Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo ANbRx "Three Ring Inferno" - remix