Combining the traditions of experimental music, film and expanded cinema, PBL creates a live mix of original music, sound and moving image, utilizing laptops and other electronic devices, responding to site, audience, and it's own evolving nature, producing a unique, all-encompassing, multimedia experience. Original compositions are interwoven with samples and soundscapes, generating a tapestry of allusion, abstract narration, and dreamlike hallucination.

Performances are audience-participatory, in any of a number of configurations, for example, PBL will incorporate contributions in the form of audience-written "intertitles" which are used to guide the content and the dynamic arc of the show. Another method may be employed in which members of the audience are invited to draw from a deck of special cards, from which Potter-Belmar Labs will then construct a sort of multimedia "Tarot" reading.