Episode nine, 'Math & Error', keeps SAFE MODE turning through a pause
The 70-day-old chapter of u m a m i's surreal web series, with live violin and viola by Ella Haluk Whelan, is nearing 100,000 views.
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Math & Error | SAFE MODE: 09
Among the animation channels closest to u m a m i in size, the big weeks belong to others. onca and Lugan3d Animations each added tens of thousands of subscribers, while Cusack Creatures and Animators VS Games #Shorts had quiet stretches. u m a m i is in the quiet group: no new uploads, subscribers holding at 421,000, and views running a little below the channel's usual pace.
What viewers are opening is "Math & Error | SAFE MODE: 09", the newest chapter of the channel's surreal animated series. Ten weeks after it went up, it still draws more daily views than everything else on the shelf combined. The description carries the episode's full lyric, a dark, storm-soaked piece of writing, and credits Ella Haluk Whelan on violin and viola, with Alan Whelan mastering.
The episode before it, "Memory Cells | SAFE MODE: 08", keeps a smaller audience. Its description sets out the world of the series: Smear, living inside something called the Interface, trying to work out whether Mischief is a worm, a virus or a hallucination from his own core memories. Karolina Szablewska helped shape that story and voices Lana.
The music has its own home here too. The channel's about line says its creator releases songs as Hexsystem, and the Geometry Psychometry EP sits third on the list. It is an electroacoustic set with analog glitches and a string trio, named in its description as a nod to Boards of Canada, Low and Akira Yamaoka. It closes with the piano piece from umami's viral "What do you see?" animation.
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Boards of Canada, one of the inspirations for the Geometry Psychometry EP, is an electronic duo from which country?
Despite their name, Boards of Canada are the Scottish brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin.
