For Vidna Obmana, music is like water. It is a singular element with the unique ability to change form, flowing and changing, but never losing the qualities of movement and fluidity. It can be lively and dramatic, but at the same time it can be very silent and cold. Just as water takes on new structures, so too does Vidna Obmana. Whether taking form as rain, ocean, ice or snow, the constant element in Vidna Obmana's music is change.
VIDNA OBMANA earth dangling,
at the Xhponozon festival, Germany.

Earth Dangling is the new performance of Belgian composer Vidna Obmana, which took this artist in 1997 to The Netherlands, Italy and the US. Critically acclaimed for his wilful world of sound, Vidna Obmana creates live a musical structure of complexity, rhythm and integrity. The minimal and mainly electronic set-up supports the meditative and tribal atmosphere, his music provokes. With the help of his synthesizers, sources, loop- and acoustic instruments, Vidna Obmana performs a wall of sound which includes snapshots from previous works as unreleased and brandnew music.



Images taken from Vidna Obmana webpage, look there for more information and sound samples: http://www.vidnaobmana.org

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