Brisbane based (and known as a catalytic figure in the Australian experimental music and film scenes) but often found wandering, Joel Stern, has been restlessly, compulsively, devising, capturing, constructing this album on and off over 6 years (2001-2008). Created from instrumental debris, snatches of environmental sound (Ethiopia, India, Toowoomba, his own room), and a poetic sensitivity for incoherence, Objects.Masks.Props, is the clearest and most potent reflection yet of Joel’s musical and artistic approach – somewhere between music concrete, art brut, free noise, cinema, abstraction, and the farmyard..