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	Vidna Obmana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dirk Serries chose the name Vidna Obmana for his musical persona because it is a Slavic term that translates as "optical illusion", a concept which correlates sonically with the surreal, alternate sound worlds depicted in his music.
		Throughout his career, Vidna Obmana has explored the abrasive side of electronic composition, the freeform landscapes of the isolationist ambient aesthetic, the structured interactivity of Fourth World soundscapess, international music traditions and post-classical experimentations.
		Vidna Obmana returned to Philadelphia for a concert with long-time friend and collaborator Steve Roach.
	www.starsend.org /vidnaobmana.html (351 words)

	Vidna Obmana --- Official Relapse Records Band Page
		Embracing the challenge to leap into unknown and uncharted terrain, VIDNA refines his minimalistic sound-sculpting while expanding the range of rhythms and performance on various acoustic instruments, like the fascinating Slovakian overtone flute Fujara, and combining his array of sounds with contemporary elements, slowly changing pace with a great interest in the avantgarde.
		Recognized internationally for his solo and collaborative work, spanning over 34 albums, commissioned works for the Dutch National Radio, Zoo Antwerpen, a Japanese TV documentary, MTV and several Belgian video art productions, including his critically acclaimed releases, continuous productivity has paved the way for expanded visibility and recognition.
		References to VIDNA's 'industrial' past of the early 80's remained strongly present, while the fusion of his ambient soundscapes with bolder and less spatial combinations of harmonics, dynamics and experimentation was even more accentuated.
	shop.relapse.com /artist/artist.aspx?ArtistID=10101 (566 words)

	Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On the surface, the collaboration between Asmus Tietchens and Vidna Obmana may appear to be an unlikely one.
		Vidna Obmana -- the Belgian synthesist whose real name is Dirk Sirries -- creates atmospheric moodscapes characterized by gradual shifts in tone color.
		In a somewhat semantic argument, Vidna Obmana and Tietchens claim that recycling -- rather than remixing or deconstructing -- isolates and emphasizes a piece's source material, which in turn is used to create an entirely new sound structure.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/vidnaobmanaasmustietchens.html (343 words)

	Vidna Obmana - Spore - Groove Unlimited
		References to Vidna's 'industrial' past of the early 80's remain strongly present, while the fusion of his ambient soundscapes with bolder and less spatial combinations of harmonics, dynamics and experimentation is even more accentuated.
		The second in Vidna Obmana’s trilogy inspired by Dante’s Inferno, one of the long term projects he is creating.
		Vidna Obmana has worked hard to develop the sound territory in this second CD and I look forward to the third installment.
	www.groove.nl /cd/5/56960.html (731 words)

	SECTION 3 - vidna obmana "twilight of perception"
		Belgian electronic composer Vidna Obmana has a new ten-song compilation out entitled Twilight of Perception, a historic representation of the creative avenues he traveled on between 1990 and 1995.
		Obmana contributed recordings to several ambient compilations even as some of his other material remained in the can.
		As creator and compiler, Obmana has struck a chord in the genre enough to make its ears ring.
	www.section3.com /records/obmana_twilight.shtml (247 words)

	Vidna Obmana -- The River Of Appearance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Obmana's continuous, streaming cloudscape of music, enter the listener like ether, suspend gravity and time, and carry the listener into a dreamlike state.
		The list of instruments utilized by Obmana in creating his music may give an idea of the general sound, although the way the individual instruments are weaved into the greater harmonic flow, makes the identification of these -- even when one knows what they are -- a rather difficult task.
		Like most of Vidna Obmana's works in recent years, The River Of Appearance has been released by Projekt.
	www.lastsigh.com /reviews/vidnariverofapp.htm (380 words)

	Vidna Obmana - Spore - Release Entertainment - CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana is no stranger to music as the bridge way to fantastic conceptual communication.
		When interspersed with disturbing industrial tones, heavy in every respect, as if the mechanisms of hell are well-oiled pistons and hot steam, the conveyance of a trip of fear is inevitable.
		This is the intent of Vidna Obmana who is a creator of dark soundtracks.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/ObmanaVidnaSporeCD.html (726 words)

	Tracers by VidnaObmana & David Lee Myers
		While Vidna Obmana's recent work has nowhere near approached the harsh, gritty textures of Arcane Device's work, the early Vidna Obmana was definitely rooted in a similar type of industrial noise.
		It can be said that the Vidna Obmana atmospheres are this nebulous background, ranging from dark to light, becoming a constant backbone to each sector of this recording.
		In all, Vidna Obmana and David Lee Myers have crafted a unique addition to both of their catalogs--spooky, subterranian, alien, vast, not to mention deliciously deep.
	home1.gte.net /vze6zk8a/theambientreview/id33.html (554 words)

	FLUXEUROPA: VIDNA OBMANA & WILLEM TANKE - VARIATIONS FOR ORGAN, KEYBOARD & PROCESSORS
		Vidna Obmana has been churning out ambient records for years, most of them being non-moving yarnfeasts.
		So when this new Vidna Obmana CD arrived I almost wished it would be a re-release of his early recordings as a Whitehouse clone.
		Vidna Obmana has taken these recordings and pushed them through his electronic laboratory.
	www.fluxeuropa.com /vidna_obmana-variations.htm (150 words)

	Jeff Pearce and Vidna Obmana \| True Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana (the Belgian ambient electronic composer, whose real name is Dirk Serries) has been prolific in the last half of the '90s and into this new decade.
		Obmana has chosen his collaborators wisely, especially his longtime musical partnership with Steve Roach.
		Similarly, here with Pearce, Obmana must work within the sweet harmonies of the guitar, rather than depend on the gloomy atonal or microtonal tone-clusters that used to dominate his sound.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=6893 (407 words)

	Vidna Obmana: Anthology 1984 - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana's ANTHOLOGY 1984 - 2004 release marks this celebration and covers Vidna's oeuvre from 1984 up 'til 2004.
		A period in his career that Vidna Obmana refused to recognize until a year ago when he realized that his experimental and noise phase created the foundation for what he has produced so far.
		This CD, the first in a series of anthologies, also stands for the birth of Vidna Obmana's own label Ikon (this first release is in alliance with Projekt).
	www.steveroach.com /Music/discography.php?albumID=306 (433 words)

	Vidna Obmana - Legacy - Release Entertainment - CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Whether or not Obmana opted to diversify his sound in Legacy, I know not as it is my first foray into this multi-instrumentalist's rather dark, hopeless world.
		Problem is, and this could be reflective of my general lack of knowledge of ambient music, is that most of Obmana’s album, though interesting, though dark and capable of seeping into your sub-conscious and reveal itself within your dreams, just doesn’t know when it’s time to stop.
		Vidna Obmana - Electric Guitars / Rhythms / various Fujaras / Overtone Flutes and Percussions / Recycling and Abstract Mutations / Voices and Ebow Harmonics
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/ObmanaVidnaLegacyCD.htm (538 words)

	Ambience for the Masses: Vidna Obmana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Obmana derives angelic choruses, long beams of metal, and something both ageless and nameless.
		Obmana re-mastered the tapes as if played from the bottom of a 20-fathom quarry.
		Obmana has taken the care to patiently fade every track, so this beauty is also padded with long stretches of undulating silence.
	www.sleepbot.com /ambience/page/obmana.html (276 words)

	Opus - Vidna Obmana - The River Of Appearances
		This is the first Vidna Obmana album I bought and already, I'm very intrigued by his work.
		Vidna Obmana's music is beautiful and melancholy, but not overly so.
		But Obmana uses it in small amounts(a tasteful approach imho), relying on the sound loops and celestial to create the mood.
	www.opuszine.com /music/review.html?reviewID=234 (470 words)

	Concertdetails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After a while Vidna Obmana came on the stage and starts to play.
		The music was created around a certain theme, and filled in by the Vidna's own expressions at that moment.
		Vidna Obmana uses again a lot of his ethnic instruments, like the fujara.
	www11.brinkster.com /electron/concertdetail.asp?id=3 (199 words)

	Vidna Obmana biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The moniker vidnaObmana was chosen by this Belgian composer for his musical persona because it means 'optical illusion.' Seventeen years hence, vidnaObmana still finds this name allows him a sense of freedom to place his music first before his own personality and philosophy.
		As a self-taught electronic musician, Obmana explored different musical realms before discovering the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, merging layers of sound while minimizing the configurations to just a few notes.
		Embracing the challenge to leap into unknown and uncharted terrain, Vidna refines his minimalistic sound-sculpting while expanding the range of rhythms and performance on various acoustic instruments, like the fascinating Slovakian overtone flute 'Fujara', and combining his array of sounds with contemporary elements, slowly changing pace with a great interest in the avant-garde.
	www.releaseentertainment.com /mechanics/vidn/biography.html (434 words)

	Vidna Obmana - Subterranean collective - Groove Unlimited
		A collection of dark ambience culled from several elusive early-90's releases, this two CD set is a shining retrospective of Vidna Obmana's finest moments.
		Serries' productivity as Vidna Obmana has been so constant and wide-ranging that many of his earlier works have almost been lost along the way.
		Overall, Subterranean is both an informative look back and a refreshing new experience, as good a place to start for those unfamiliar with Serries' work as it is a necessary release for those already captivated by him.
	www.groove.nl /cd/4/40570.html (643 words)

	Electron Blue
		"Vidna Obmana" is one of the masters of the genre.
		While Obmana is mainly self-taught, with a strong influence from "world" and aboriginal music, De Backer is classically trained as well as experienced in jazz and avant-garde bass playing.
		Obmana brings with him a variety of instruments, including an electric guitar which is not only played by hand but bowed, and his signature Hungarian "fujara" flutes, which play overtones and microtones.
	www.pyracantha.com /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/12/12 (1147 words)

	Vidna Obmana releases from steveroach.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Steve Roach / Vidna Obmana's 2002 CD INNERZONE served as the doorway to the surreal environment explored on SPIRIT DOME.
		The journey continues as Roach and Vidna Obmana delve further into the terrain first traversed on the acclaimed WELL OF SOULS.
		Vidna Obmana's "The Embrace in Motion" shows how influential his recent mindmelds with Steve Roach have been as he explores the same morass of electronic primordialism to chilling effect, while Roach himself chimes in with "Before the Sacrifice", featuring tribal, penetrating hand-struck percussions and canyon-deep chords of synth that envelop you totally.
	www.steveroach.com /store?artistID=2 (1158 words)

	Reviews for Titles by Artists/Groups: "N-O" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana continues the bold artistic exploration he began on Hypnos with "Landscape In Obscurity" and continued with the "The Surreal Sanctuary" and "The Contemporary Nocturne," and most recently the two-disc "Soundtrack For The Aquarium."
		Anyone who has enjoyed Vidna Obmana or Pearce's ambient works should definitely consider exploring "True Stories," a genuine sonic meeting point between two artists who have individually contributed a great deal to the world of ambience and space.
		Obmana and Tanke attempted to capture the atmosphere of the mystvisions and subatomic whirls which form the subject of Fritjov Capra's "Tao of Physics," upon which Willem Tanke based a series of organ works.
	www.backroadsmusic.com /reviews/n_o_reviews.htm (10258 words)

	Vidna Obmana and Serge Devadder -- The Shape Of Solitude -- Multimood Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana and Serge Devadder -- The Shape Of Solitude -- Multimood Records
		Vidna Obmana [Belgium] is a very diverse and long time expert in the area of ambient-esque experimental.
		Vidna also tours on occaision in Europe and has been over to the USA in the past.
	www.lastsigh.com /reviews2/vidnaobmana_solitude.htm (171 words)

	Vidna Obmana - Review : Landscape In Obscurity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But minute after minute it goes faster and the melodies becomes lighter, this because of the additions of flute and sax.
		You can have a good comparison with Steve roach (listen to "Ascension Of Shadows") This CD is again a star on the work of Vidna Obmana.
		Again he let hear the people, that he's a master in the atmosperic music, with simple pieces of melodies.
	www11.brinkster.com /electron/artistpage.asp?id=64&page=6 (153 words)

	Vidna Obmana is incontestably located at the summit of the biggest names of the atmospheric dark-ambient music of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vidna Obmana is incontestably located at the summit of the biggest names of the atmospheric dark-ambient music of vanguard.
		Vidna even pushed his resonant obsession as far as preserving the small grindings and various noises that appeared during the recording - and normally erased for commercial reasons - to make these sounds come out even better, with loops of small jangles, only to mention an example.
		A very intense and meticulous record which easily comes out to be another masterpiece in the discography of the Belgian musician.
	www.heimdallr.ch /Reviews/2000/obmanagb.html (235 words)

	Projekt Artist: 'Vidna Obmana'
		Belgian composer Dirk Serries chose the name Vidna Obmana for his musical persona because it means "optical illusion." Thirteen years hence, Vidna Obmana still finds that the name gives him a feeling of freedom to place his music first, before his own personality and philosophy.
		As a self-taught electronic musician, Vidna Obmana explored different musical areas before discovering the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, merging layers of sound and minimizing the configurations to a few notes.
		Vidna Obmana's collaborative work with legendary sound pioneer Steve Roach has resulted in three groundbreaking albums on Projekt.
	www.projekt.com /projekt/artist.asp?id=1014 (620 words)

	Ambient music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Organic ambient is intended to be more harmonious with (The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions) nature than with the (A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music) disco.
		Some of the artists known for this style of ambient music include (additional info and facts about Robert Fripp) Robert Fripp, (additional info and facts about Vidna Obmana) Vidna Obmana, Jeff Greinke, (additional info and facts about Naut Humon) Naut Humon, and Iszoloscope.
		Ambient electronic music is the current most widely heard form of the ambient music and began in its modern form in the late (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s and early (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/ambient_music.htm (2210 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Tremor [Import] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The great thing about Vidna Obmana's work is that, no matter what kind is being done, it always sounds like his own.
		With Tremor, he explores more of the dark and moody side, but it doesn't deviate too far away from his normal sound, which is great because it remains representative of Vidna Obmana's work while at the same time being new and fresh.
		The ear-walk that Obmana takes us on is a journey in which the path is deceptively smooth but the shimmering walls are rough, and the sulfuric heat one feels on the face warns of impending doom while the occasional airy flute passage welcomes us to take yet another step forward.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NYA6 (868 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The URL is http://www.pri.org/echoes * ************************************************************************ ***HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK ON ECHOES*** Monday, February 3, 1997 #97-JO7-00024 Vidna Obmana's Looping Illusions Vidna Obmana** is Serbo-Croatian for optical illusion and that also describes the music of Dirk Series, the Belgian composer working under that name.
		Vidna Obmana has released dark, electronic soundscapes and techno-tribal music with Steve Roach.
		We talk with Vidna Obmana about his sound world.
	www.well.com:70 /0/Art/New.Music/Echoes/Echolists/wk6-97 (551 words)

	Vidna Obmana
		Over the years, I've done one specific soundtrack to an experimental video in 1987 but in fact, the music is not really representative for what Vidna Obmana stands for today.
		Luckily, I met Patrick, my webmaster, a couple of years ago since he was working on the Art for Ears site, a Belgian organization who focuses on Belgian electronic music, and due to his expertise on the Internet level, we're able to map a fine website for Vidna Obmana.
		Also, I'm currently working together with Chuck Van Zyl (radiohost of Star's End in Philadelphia) on a Vidna Obmana tour in October 98 which will take me to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Connecticut and maybe New York.
	www.spiderbytes.com /ambientrance/vidna.htm (4424 words)

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