Emergent song: the polyphonies of living timekeepers

Living timekeepers, stochastic yet precise, tunable yet robust, idiosyncratic yet organized, have captured the imagination of many a curious onlooker in many a context for the longest time. This talk represents a quest for unifying ideas, frameworks, and principles governing temporal ordering in a variety of natural phenomena, with special emphasis on the emergence of patterns and tessellations in the space-time interplay between living timekeepers and their space analog: the living ruler.