Dirk Serries
Dirk Serries nel 2009
Nazionalità	Belgio
Genere	Musica d'ambiente
Periodo di attività musicale	1984 – in attività
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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.^[1] 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.^[2][3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5] Il compositore viene spesso citato fra i rappresentanti del dark ambient.^[6][7]

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