# Vidna Obmana

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Belgian composer and ambient musician

Vidna Obmana Dirk Serries (2009) Background information Born Dirk Serries 1968 (age 57–58) Origin Belgium Genres Ambient music Minimal music Drone music Years active 1984–2007 Labels ND Records Hypnos Recordings Soleilmoon Recordings Projekt Records Website [1]

Musical artist

**Vidna Obmana** (stylized **vidnaObmana** on many album covers) is a [pseudonym](/source/Pseudonym) used by [Belgian](/source/Belgium) composer and [ambient musician](/source/Ambient_music) Dirk Serries. The name *Vidna Obmana*, a phrase in [Serbian](/source/Serbian_language), 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]

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](/source/Asmus_Tietchens), [Brannan Lane](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brannan_Lane&action=edit&redlink=1), [Capriolo Trifoglio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capriolo_Trifoglio&action=edit&redlink=1), [Diego Borotti](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diego_Borotti&action=edit&redlink=1), and [Steve Roach](/source/Steve_Roach_(musician)). Some of these collaborations have become entire projects of their own, such as [Continuum](/source/Continuum_(music_project)) (collaboration with [Bass Communion](/source/Bass_Communion)) and Principle of Silence (collaboration with [Joris De Backer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joris_De_Backer&action=edit&redlink=1)).

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

## Discography

### Solo albums

- *The Ultimated Sign of Burning Death* (1985) Therapie Organisatie

- *Experience Artaud - Soundtrack for Experimental Theatre* (1988), Mechanical Orchestration Music

- *Deathchamber - Trancedreamed* (1988) Mechanical Orchestration Music

- *Gathering in frozen beauty* (1989), The Decade Collection

- *Near the flogging landscape* (1990), VioletGlassOracle Tapes

- *Refined on gentle clouds* (1991), Direct Music

- *Passage in Beauty* (1991), [Projekt](/source/Projekt_Records)

- *Shadowing in Sorrow* (1991), Projekt

- *Ending Mirage* (1992), Projekt

- *[Echoing Delight](/source/Echoing_Delight)* (1993)

- *Revealed by composed nature* (1994), Hic Sunt Leones

- *[The Spiritual Bonding](/source/The_Spiritual_Bonding)* (1994) Extreme

- *The Transcending Quest* (1995), Amplexus

- *The River of Appearance* (1996), Projekt

- *Twilight of Perception* (1997), Projekt

- *Crossing the Trail* (1997), Projekt

- *Landscape in obscurity* (1998), Hypnos - with [Capriolo Trifoglio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capriolo_Trifoglio&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Diego Borotti](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diego_Borotti&action=edit&redlink=1)

- *The Surreal Sanctuary* (2000), Hypnos

- *The Contemporary Nocturne* (2000), Hypnos

- *Subterranean Collective* (2001), Project

- *Soundtrack for the Aquarium* (2001), Hypnos

- *Tremor* (2001), [Relapse](/source/Relapse_Records)/Release

- *Isolation Trip/Path of Distortion* (2002), Klanggalerie (7" LP)

- *Spore* (2003), Relapse

- *Legacy* (2004), Relapse

### *Opera for Four Fusion Works* Series

- *An Opera for Four Fusion Works* - *Act One: Echoes of Steel* with Dreams in Exile (2002), Hypnos - *Act Two: Phrasing the Air* with Bill Fox (2004), Hypnos - *Act Three: Reflection on Scale* with Kenneth Kirchner (2006), Hypnos - *Act 4* (2007), Hypnos

### Collaborations

#### With [Bass Communion](/source/Bass_Communion)

- *[Continuum I](/source/Continuum_(music_project)#Continuum_I)* (2005), Soleilmoon

- *[the continuum recyclings, volume one](/source/Continuum_(music_project)#Continuum_I)* (2006), Tonefloat (2LP)

- *[Continuum II](/source/Continuum_(music_project)#Continuum_II)* (2007), Soleilmoon

- *[the continuum recyclings, volume two](/source/Continuum_(music_project)#Continuum_I)* (2010), Tonefloat (2LP)

#### With [Big City Orchestra](/source/Big_City_Orchestra)

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

#### With [Serge Devadder](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Serge_Devadde&action=edit&redlink=1)

- *The Shape of Solitude* (1999), Multimood

#### With [Alio Die](/source/Alio_Die)

- *[Echo Passage](/source/Echo_Passage)* (1999), Musica Maxima Magnetica; [Projekt Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prokekt_Records&action=edit&redlink=1) (USA)

#### With [Brannan Lane](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brannan_Lane&action=edit&redlink=1)

- *Deep Unknown* (2002), Ambient Circle

#### With [Dreams in Exile](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreams_in_Exile&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 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](/source/Klinik)

- *Gluttony* (2005), Hands

- *Greed* (2006), Hands

#### With [Jan Marmenout](/source/Jan_Marmenout)

- *Spirits* (1999), High Gate Music

#### With David Lee Myers

- *Tracers* (2003), Klanggalerie

#### With [Neurotic Youth](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neurotic_Youth&action=edit&redlink=1)

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

#### With [PBK](/source/PBK_(composer))

- *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](/source/Jeff_Pearce_(American_artist))

- *True Stories* (1999), Mirage

#### With [Steve Roach](/source/Steve_Roach_(musician))

- *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](/source/Spirit_Dome)* (2004), Projekt

- *Somewhere Else* (2005), Projekt

- *Low Volume Music* (2012), Projekt

#### With [Sam Rosenthal](/source/Sam_Rosenthal)

- *Terrace of Memories* (1992), Projekt

#### With [Djen Ajakan Shean](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Djen_Ajakan_Shean&action=edit&redlink=1)

- *[Parallel Flaming](/source/Parallel_Flaming)* (1994), Multimood

- *Still Fragments* (1994), ND

#### With [Willem Tanke](/source/Willem_Tanke)

- *Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors* (1999), Multimood

#### With [Asmus Tietchens](/source/Asmus_Tietchens)

- *The Shift Recyclings* (2002), Soleilmoon

- *Motives for Recycling (Linear Writings, Nachtstücke Revisited)* (1999), Soleilmoon

- *Untitled Collaboration* (1995), Syrenia

#### Other collaborations

- *Zero Point* (2001), The Foundry - by Seofon with Thermal, [Stephen Kent](/source/Stephen_Kent_(musician)), [Robert Rich](/source/Robert_Rich_(musician)), [Steve Roach](/source/Steve_Roach_(musician)), [Not Breathing](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Not_Breathing&action=edit&redlink=1)

- *Music for Exhibiting Water with Contents – Soundtrack for the Aquarium* (1992) Antwerp ZOO - Split with Hybrids

- *A Thunder Orchestra / Vidna Obmana* (1986), Ladd-Frith - Split release with A Thunder Orchestra

- [Agoraphobic Nosebleed](/source/Agoraphobic_Nosebleed) - *[PCP Torpedo](/source/PCP_Torpedo)* ANbRx "Three Ring Inferno" - remix

### Anthologies

- *Noise/Drone Anthology 1984-1989* (2005), Ikon/Projekt

- *[Anthology 1984 - 2004](/source/Anthology_1984_-_2004)* (2004), Ikon/Projekt

- *Memories Compiled 2 (Near the flogging landscape, Refined on gentle clouds)* (1999), Projekt: Archive

- *The Trilogy* (1995), Projekt: Archive - Compilation of *Passage in beauty*, *Shadowing in sorrow* and *Ending Mirage*

- *Memories Compiled 1 (Monument of Empty Colours, Gathering in frozen beauty)* (1994), Projekt: Archive - with PBK

## See also

- [List of ambient music artists](/source/List_of_ambient_music_artists)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-VidnaObmana_Bio_1-0)** ["Vidna Obmana"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090822222435/http://www.vidnaobmana.be/index.php?pg=vidnaobmana). Archived from [the original](http://www.vidnaobmana.be/index.php?pg=vidnaobmana) on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-11-13.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-VidnaObmana_2-0)** ["Vidna Obmana"](https://web.archive.org/web/20091123183923/http://www.vidnaobmana.be/). Archived from [the original](http://www.vidnaobmana.be/) on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2009-11-13.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Fear_Falls_Burning,_History_3-0)** ["Fear Falls Burning, History"](http://www.fearfallsburning.be/). Retrieved 2009-11-13.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Vidna Obmana discography](http://www.moodbook.com/music/vidna-obmana.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Phillips, Dave (2004). ["Linux Audio Conference 2004 Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 29 April-2 May 2004"](http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/comj.2004.28.4.87?journalCode=comj). *Computer Music Journal*. **28** (4): 87–91. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1162/comj.2004.28.4.87](https://doi.org/10.1162%2Fcomj.2004.28.4.87). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [64289367](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:64289367).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Teresa Gubbins, [Vidna Obmana](http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3D44AC8478E7C&p_field_direct-0=document_id), Dallas Morning News, February 24, 1994

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.dirkserries.com/)

- [Vidna Obmana](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p40696) at [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic_(identifier))

- [Vidna Obmana](https://www.discogs.com/artist/12969) discography at [Discogs](/source/Discogs)

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