On the surface, the collaboration between Asmus Tietchens and Vidna Obmana may appear to be an unlikely one. Tietchens is a German electronic musician who has pursued "absolute music" through an almost mathematical process of rigid formal exercises. With strong ties to Karlheinz Stockhausen's early electronic work, Tietchens specializes in irregular patterns of sonic abstractions that are suspended in gray drones to create cold textural voids from external references. Vidna Obmana -- the Belgian synthesist whose real name is Dirk Sirries -- creates atmospheric moodscapes characterized by gradual shifts in tone color. Vidna Obmana's work retains a definite similarity to the evocative ambient impressions left by Brian Eno [More]
On the surface, the collaboration between Asmus Tietchens and Vidna Obmana may appear to be an unlikely one. Tietchens is a German electronic musician who has pursued "absolute music" through an almost mathematical process of rigid formal exercises. With strong ties to Karlheinz Stockhausen's early electronic work, Tietchens specializes in irregular patterns of sonic abstractions that are suspended in gray drones to create cold textural voids from external references. Vidna Obmana -- the Belgian synthesist whose real name is Dirk Sirries -- creates atmospheric moodscapes characterized by gradual shifts in tone color. Vidna Obmana's work retains a definite similarity to the evocative ambient impressions left by Brian Eno [
