Dirk Serries
# 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
