# Dirk Serries

Dirk Serries, anche conosciuto con gli pseudonimi Vidna Obmana (o vidnaObmana) e Fear Falls Burning (Anversa, 4 ottobre 1968), è un compositore belga.

## 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.

## 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