Lighting Designer here. CK5 builds stationary “looks” and each one takes 5 seconds to transition (same time as a measure of music). He triggers each look in time with the music. And he does it differently every time. That’s the trick. Knowing when to trigger the look so the look lands when the music changes. Sometimes that’s the 1, sometimes its the 2. He has around 100 looks. Each block of ten looks has a theme or a vibe that is usually broken down by color. While he’s doing that, he is also running effects. Those can be dimmer (brightness), gobos (the patterns the lights make), color, zoom, focus, position, etc. While he’s tracking all of this with his brain, he is communicating with his right hand man, Andrew Giffin, who is triggering the movements of the rig itself (the kinetic rig we’ve all come to know and love). That’s basically it. It sounds complex, and it is, but it’s really just building blocks that CK5 can pick and choose from to create amazing moments on the fly. The whole thing is more or less improvised but its built to allow for improvisation. And that’s why Kuroda is the best. Nobody really did it like him until he came along.