Dots and Boxes

Confessional indie-rock where l0b0t is satire, d&b is sincerity

Year 2018
Venue Indie / Art-Rock
Location Cincinnati, OH

Impact Snapshot

Role

Cross-disciplinary creative technologist

Audience

Project-specific audience and collaborators

Stack

Music Production, AI-Augmented Composition, Prompt Engineering

Outcomes

  • Confessional indie-rock where l0b0t is satire, d&b is sincerity

Measured Signals

  • Timeline: 2018
  • Team members credited: 2
Dots and Boxes album artwork

Description

Dots & Boxes is the long-running project Phil and I have been building together under the Quantum Jellybean label. Where l0b0t is satire, d&b is sincerity — confessional lyrics, conversational intimacy, and the tension between saying too much and not enough. The production workflow compresses a small indie label into a two-person operation, with a Suno prompt architecture tuned specifically to the d&b aesthetic — a two-mode system using dense keyword stacks and narrative briefs that favors genre-blending, tension/contradiction pairings, and language that evokes rather than describes.

Team

  • Justin West Composer/Producer
  • Phil Ferrari Composer/Producer

Capabilities

Music ProductionAI-Augmented CompositionPrompt Engineering

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