Biografia Il termine Vidna Obmana, che significa "illusione ottica" in lingua serba, venne scelto dal musicista perché riteneva che rappresentasse fedelmente la sua musica. Serries mantenne quell'alias a partire dal 1984, anno del suo debutto musicale fino al 2007, anno in cui decise di abbandonarlo ufficialmente a favore di Fear Falls Burning. Durante la sua carriera, Serries ha collaborato con moltissimi artisti fra cui Asmus Tietchens, Brannan Lane, Capriolo Trifoglio, Diego Borotti, Steve Roach e Chihei Hatakeyama. Ha anche collaborato in veri e propri progetti quali Continuum (una collaborazione con Bass Communion) e Principle of Silence (una collaborazione con Joris De Backer).
Stile musicale La musica di Dirk Serries è stata spesso definita "anamorfica" ed "organica", e viene realizzata alterando e mettendo in loop le armonie, nonché riducendo al minimo le configurazioni da poche note. Il compositore viene spesso citato fra i rappresentanti del dark ambient.Larry Austin, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia: Forty Years on the Edge, Computer Music Journal, April 2004Teresa Gubbins, Vidna Obmana, Dallas Morning News, February 24, 1994
Discografia Album solisti 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 - con Capriolo Trifoglio e 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
La serie Opera for Four Fusion Works 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
Collaborazioni
Con Bass Communion
Continuum I (2005), Soleilmoon the continuum recyclings, volume one (2006), Tonefloat (2LP) Continuum II (2007), Soleilmoon
Con i Big City Orchestra Vidna Obmana & Big City Orchestra (1989), Mechanical Orchestration Music
Con Serge Devadde The Shape of Solitude (1999), Multimood
Con Alio Die Echo Passage (1999), Musica Maxima Magnetica; Projekt Records (USA)
Con Brannan Lane Deep Unknown (2002), Ambient Circle
Con Dreams in Exile 2-disc re-release of The River of Appearance (1996)
Con i Klinik Gluttony (2005), Hands Greed (2006), Hands
Con Jan Marmenout Spirits (1999), High Gate Music
Con David Lee Myers Tracers (2003), Klanggalerie
Con Neurotic Youth Bleeding Wounds / Only Fear Will Survive (1986), Ladd-Frith
Con PBK Monument of Empty Colours (1988), The Decade Collection Compositions : Depression & Ideal (1989), Freedom in a Vacuum/PBK Recordings Fragment 3 (1991), N D
Con Jeff Pearce True Stories (1999), Mirage
Con Steve Roach Well of Souls (1995), Projekt – 2 discs Cavern of Sirens (1997), Projekt Ascension of Shadows (1998), Projekt Live Archive (2000), Groove Unlimited Circles & Artifacts (2000), Contemptary Harmonic InnerZone (2002), Projekt Spirit Dome (2004), Projekt Somewhere Else (2005), Project
Con Sam Rosenthal Terrace of Memories (1992), Projekt
Con Djen Ajakan Shean Parallel Flaming (1994), Multimood Still Fragments (1994), ND
Con Willem Tanke Variations for Organ, Keyboard and Processors (1999), Multimood
Con Asmus Tietchens The Shift Recyclings (2002), Soleilmoon Motives for Recycling (Linear Writings, Nachtstücke Revisited) (1999), Soleilmoon Untitled Collaboration (1995), Syrenia
Altre collaborazioni Zero Point (2001), The Foundry - Seofon con Thermal, Stephen Kent, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Not Breathing Music for Exhibiting Water with Contents – Soundtrack for the Aquarium (1992) Antwerp ZOO A Thunder Orchestra / Vidna Obmana (1986), Ladd-Frith
Antologie 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 - con PBK
Note
Voci correlate Alio Die Steve Roach Steven Wilson
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Vidna Obmana (Profilo di Vidna Obmana su MySpace) Vidna Obmana (Pagina scritta da Piero Scaruffi su Vidna Obmana)