The Subtle Forces Podcast
Artist Anja Notanja explores a different “subtle force” through essays, interviews and experiments.
Episodes

May 12, 2021
May 12, 2021
29 min
It's been one helluva crapsome busy mish max whawhawha hoggedy froggedy week and now Anja has exactly one hour to conceive, produce and edit a 29 minute episode.
CAN SHE DO IT?
Featuring:
Words spoken in the Beautiful Rhatasian language!!!
A player piano from the Scott Joplin House, St. Louis, Missouri
Baby cries by Jenni Reinke and Brian Rott
Beats by Victoria Robison
Rearranged bits of the Graveyard Document of Freesia McKee
theme by Anton Sieger

Apr 21, 2021
Apr 21, 2021
40 min
Anja confronts Mount Garbage outside her window, trash is talked and value uncovered.
Paul Druecke's America Pastime instagram post that Anja bid on.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNc_v0LH_hD/
New York Times Feature
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/design/instagram-art-accounts.html
Paul suggests this book
https://www.worldcat.org/title/wasting-away-an-exploration-of-waste-what-it-is-how-it-happens-why-we-fear-it-how-to-do-it-well/oclc/679772474?referer=di&ht=edition
Paul's Website:
https://www.pauldruecke.com

Apr 10, 2021
Apr 10, 2021
29 min
Can you ever truly evade Dracula?
With music from Anton Sieger's new album Illicit Eagle.
https://illiciteagle.bandcamp.com/releases
Featuring flickers of presence from Joan Namm, Natalie Schmitting, Jessica Bayer

Mar 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021
36 min
In which two inherited childhood memories are set to music.
Featuring Work By:
John Sieger https://www.patreon.com/JohnSieger
Loey Norquist https://loeynorquist.bandcamp.com/album/north-by-norquist
David Standridge https://www.reverbnation.com/davidstandridge/songs
Anna Raff https://soundcloud.com/anna-stephanie-178683505
Beau Kriedermann https://www.reverbnation.com/Eponymous7/songs
Imre Lodbrog http://www.imrelodbrog.com
Sue Blaustein http://sueblaustein.com
John Sieger, Mike Sieger and Loey Norquist on "The Great Somewhere"
Subtle Forces Theme by Anton Sieger

Mar 12, 2021
Mar 12, 2021
59 min
What if all housing material had to be edible? What if landlords were re-branded as "housing servants?" What if every rental unit had to be demolished and rebuilt every 40 years? What about tree houses?
Featuring:
An Autobiography from Robert of Have Goals Milwaukee
Chris Krco is the cohost of Housing for All, a 4-episode podcast with everything you need to know about reforming the American housing system. He also cohosts Housing for Us, interviewing ordinary people who have struggled with the American housing system, as well as ordinary people living in extraordinary housing systems. All the work of his organization, Housing for All, is on the web at housing4.us. He founded the Milwaukee Community Land Trust.
Freesia McKee on What If's?
Check out the Pinnacle@Duxton, the world's finest public housing unit
Music by Anton Sieger
Photo: Have Goals MKE

Mar 4, 2021
Mar 4, 2021
29 min
In which Anja shares some of her embarrassing audio diary from 10 years ago.
Guests in chronological order...
Anja's mom, Anton Sieger on piano, Grandma Does Her Taxes, Freesia McKee on piano, yodeling at a festival, wind chimes, "Monster," The Polymer Slug on keyboard, Jessica Bayer, and assorted friends near the end.

Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021
59 min
In which Anja conducts a science fair project testing the mind reading ability of 8 highly intuitive people.
Featuring Terimarie Degree and her mom Lela, Freesia McKee and Jade Kästel, Mace and their roomate Sindie Ho, Victoria and Rosalie Robison and a moment with Heidi Parkes.
Photo originally shared from @thebrasslady instagram account.

Feb 4, 2021
Feb 4, 2021
59 min
Anja's notoriously conservative friend, The Skrauss tries drugs, falls in love and suddenly realizes he has been a tool of the patriarchal empire.
Subtle Force: That Unrelenting Audience.
Skrauss Links:
"This is the episode of a great and informative show that lead me to Salt Lake City"
https://www.plantmedicine.org/"Here's an admirable woman"
https://instagram.com/garagegymgirl?igshid=1jfda8xooweek
Skrauss's Art Website
https://www.imageforhire.com
Music: Anton Sieger, Anna Raff. Photo: Anja's parents dressed as Raggedy Ann and Andy

Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021
29 min
At her day job Anja puts things away for a living, but when she is home she leaves everything out.
Featuring an interview with Pat Walsh, inventor of "Put Away."
Music by Anton Sieger.

Jan 9, 2021
Jan 9, 2021
59 min
Anja receives an email from the anti-vaccination organization Weston A. Price and asks a real doctor, Dr. Michelle Kosmalski what she thinks about it.
Also featuring: the smooth voice of Charles Bursell.










