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 Organisatie
  • Experience Artaud - Soundtrack for Experimental Theatre, Mechanical Orchestration Music
  • Deathchamber - Trancedreamed Mechanical Orchestration Music
  • Gathering in frozen beauty, The Decade Collection
  • Near the flogging landscape, VioletGlassOracle Tapes
  • Refined on gentle clouds, Direct Music
  • Passage in Beauty, Projekt
  • Shadowing in Sorrow, Projekt
  • Ending Mirage, Projekt
  • Echoing Delight
  • Revealed by composed nature, Hic Sunt Leones
  • The Spiritual Bonding Extreme
  • The Transcending Quest, Amplexus
  • The River of Appearance, Projekt
  • Twilight of Perception, Projekt
  • Crossing the Trail, Projekt
  • Landscape in obscurity, Hypnos - with Capriolo Trifoglio and Diego Borotti
  • The Surreal Sanctuary, Hypnos
  • The Contemporary Nocturne, Hypnos
  • Subterranean Collective, Project
  • Soundtrack for the Aquarium, Hypnos
  • Tremor, Relapse/Release
  • Isolation Trip/Path of Distortion, Klanggalerie
  • Spore, Relapse
  • Legacy, 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, Soleilmoon
  • the continuum recyclings, volume one, Tonefloat
  • Continuum II, Soleilmoon
  • the continuum recyclings, volume two, Tonefloat

    With [Big City Orchestra]

  • Vidna Obmana & Big City Orchestra, Mechanical Orchestration Music

    With [Serge Devadde]r

  • The Shape of Solitude, Multimood

    With [Alio Die]

  • Echo Passage, Musica Maxima Magnetica; Projekt Records

    With [Brannan Lane]

  • Deep Unknown, Ambient Circle

    With [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, Hands
  • Greed, Hands

    With [Jan Marmenout]

  • Spirits, High Gate Music

    With David Lee Myers

  • Tracers, Klanggalerie

    With [Neurotic Youth]

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

    With PBK">PBK (composer)">PBK

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

    With Jeff Pearce">Jeff Pearce (American artist)">Jeff Pearce

  • True Stories, Mirage

    With Steve Roach">Steve Roach (musician)">Steve Roach

  • Well of Souls, Projekt – 2 discs
  • Cavern of Sirens, Projekt
  • Ascension of Shadows, Projekt
  • Live Archive, Groove Unlimited
  • Circles & Artifacts, Contemptary Harmonic
  • InnerZone, Projekt
  • Spirit Dome, Projekt
  • Somewhere Else, Projekt
  • Low Volume Music, Projekt

    With [Sam Rosenthal]

  • Terrace of Memories, Projekt

    With [Djen Ajakan Shean]

  • Parallel Flaming, Multimood
  • Still Fragments, ND

    With [Willem Tanke]

  • Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors, Multimood

    With [Asmus Tietchens]

  • The Shift Recyclings, Soleilmoon
  • Motives for Recycling , Soleilmoon
  • Untitled Collaboration, Syrenia

    Other collaborations

  • Zero Point, The Foundry - by Seofon with Thermal, Stephen Kent, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Not Breathing
  • Music for Exhibiting Water with Contents – Soundtrack for the Aquarium Antwerp ZOO - Split with Hybrids
  • A Thunder Orchestra / Vidna Obmana, Ladd-Frith - Split release with A Thunder Orchestra
  • Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo ANbRx "Three Ring Inferno" - remix

    Anthologies

  • Noise/Drone Anthology 1984-1989, Ikon/Projekt
  • Anthology 1984 - 2004, Ikon/Projekt
  • Memories Compiled 2 , Projekt: Archive
  • The Trilogy, Projekt: Archive - Compilation of Passage in beauty, Shadowing in sorrow and Ending Mirage
  • Memories Compiled 1 , Projekt: Archive - with PBK