Dirk Serries (Belgian experimental guitarist)

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. 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 (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. 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 Shadowing in Sorrow (1991), Projekt Ending Mirage (1992), Projekt Echoing Delight (1993) Revealed by composed nature (1994), Hic Sunt Leones 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 and Diego Borotti The Surreal Sanctuary (2000), Hypnos The Contemporary Nocturne (2000), Hypnos Subterranean Collective (2001), Project Soundtrack for the Aquarium (2001), Hypnos Tremor (2001), Relapse/Release Isolation Trip/Path of Distortion (2002), Klanggalerie (7" LP) Spore (2003), Relapse Legacy (2004), Relapse 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 Continuum I (2005), Soleilmoon the continuum recyclings, volume one (2006), Tonefloat (2LP) Continuum II (2007), Soleilmoon the continuum recyclings, volume two (2010), Tonefloat (2LP) Vidna Obmana & Big City Orchestra (1989), Mechanical Orchestration Music The Shape of Solitude (1999), Multimood Echo Passage (1999), Musica Maxima Magnetica; Projekt Records (USA) Deep Unknown (2002), Ambient Circle 2-disc re-release of The River of Appearance (1996) with accompanying all-acoustic re-conceptualization of the album by Dreams in Exile Gluttony (2005), Hands Greed (2006), Hands Spirits (1999), High Gate Music Tracers (2003), Klanggalerie Bleeding Wounds / Only Fear Will Survive (1986), Ladd-Frith Monument of Empty Colours (1988), The Decade Collection Compositions : Depression & Ideal (1989), Freedom in a Vacuum/PBK Recordings Fragment 3 (1991), N D True Stories (1999), Mirage 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 Terrace of Memories (1992), Projekt Parallel Flaming (1994), Multimood Still Fragments (1994), ND Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors (1999), Multimood The Shift Recyclings (2002), Soleilmoon Motives for Recycling (Linear Writings, Nachtstücke Revisited) (1999), Soleilmoon Untitled Collaboration (1995), Syrenia Zero Point (2001), The Foundry - by Seofon with Thermal, Stephen Kent, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Not Breathing 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 - PCP Torpedo ANbRx "Three Ring Inferno" - remix Noise/Drone Anthology 1984-1989 (2005), Ikon/Projekt 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 List of ambient music artists "Vidna Obmana". 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