Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a

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used by Belgian composer and

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ian Dirk Serries. The name ''Vidna Obmana'', a phrase in

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, 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 Asmus Tietchens (born 3 February 1947, in Hamburg), who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music. Tietchens became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a chi ...

, Brannan Lane, Capriolo Trifoglio,

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, and Steve Roach. Some of these collaborations have become entire projects of their own, such as Continuum (collaboration with

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) and Principle of Silence (collaboration with Joris De Backer). Vidna Obmana is often cited as one of the more notable dark ambient musicians.Teresa Gubbins
Vidna Obmana
Dallas Morning News, February 24, 1994

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 Projekt Records is an independent record label established by Sam Rosenthal in 1983, the label focuses on darkwave, ambient, shoegaze, gothic rock, ethereal, dream-pop, and dark cabaret releases. History Projekt was founded in 1983 by Sam Ros ...

* ''Shadowing in Sorrow'' (1991), Projekt * ''Ending Mirage'' (1992), Projekt * '' Echoing Delight'' (1993) * ''Revealed by composed nature'' (1994), Hic Sunt Leones * ''

The Spiritual Bonding ''The Spiritual Bonding'' is an album by Vidna Obmana, released in 1994 through Extreme Records. Track listing Personnel ;Musicians * Alio Die – instruments, recording *Vidna Obmana – instruments, arrangement, recording, ph ...

'' (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

* ''The Surreal Sanctuary'' (2000), Hypnos * ''The Contemporary Nocturne'' (2000), Hypnos * ''Subterranean Collective'' (2001), Project * ''Soundtrack for the Aquarium'' (2001), Hypnos * ''Tremor'' (2001),

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/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 Bass Communion is a solo project of English musician Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. Records released under the name Bass Communion are in an ambient or electronic vein—lengthy, drone-heavy compo ...

* '' Continuum I'' (2005), Soleilmoon * '' the continuum recyclings, volume one'' (2006), Tonefloat (2LP) * '' Continuum II'' (2007), Soleilmoon * '' the continuum recyclings, volume two'' (2010), Tonefloat (2LP)

With Big City Orchestra

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

With Serge Devadder

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

With Alio Die

* '' Echo Passage'' (1999), Musica Maxima Magnetica;

Projekt Records Projekt Records is an independent record label established by Sam Rosenthal in 1983, the label focuses on darkwave, ambient, shoegaze, gothic rock, ethereal, dream-pop, and dark cabaret releases. History Projekt was founded in 1983 by Sam ...

(USA)

With Brannan Lane

* ''Deep Unknown'' (2002), Ambient Circle

With Dreams in Exile

* 2-disc re-release of ''The River of Appearance'' (1996) with accompanying all-acoustic re-conceptualization of the album by Dreams in Exile

With
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* ''Gluttony'' (2005), Hands * ''Greed'' (2006), Hands

With Jan Marmenout

* ''Spirits'' (1999), High Gate Music

With David Lee Myers

* ''Tracers'' (2003), Klanggalerie

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

With PBK

* ''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

* ''True Stories'' (1999), Mirage

With Steve Roach

* ''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 * ''

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'' (2004), Projekt * ''Somewhere Else'' (2005), Projekt * ''Low Volume Music'' (2012), Projekt

With
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* ''Terrace of Memories'' (1992), Projekt

With Djen Ajakan Shean

* '' Parallel Flaming'' (1994), Multimood * ''Still Fragments'' (1994), ND

With Willem Tanke

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

With
Asmus Tietchens Asmus Tietchens (born 3 February 1947, in Hamburg), who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music. Tietchens became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a chi ...

* ''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, Robert Rich, Steve Roach,

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* ''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 *

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- '' PCP Torpedo'' ANbRx "Three Ring Inferno" - remix

Anthologies

* ''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

References

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* * * {{Authority control Ambient musicians Belgian composers Belgian male composers Belgian male musicians Extreme Records artists Living people Projekt Records artists Relapse Records artists Soleilmoon artists Belgian electronic musicians 1968 births Place of birth missing (living people)