Tesserat

Tesserat is the solo project of Glenn Harless, based in San Diego and started in 2026. A tessera is a single tile in a mosaic, one small piece of a larger picture. The extra t is a nod to Apparat and Moderat. The music moves across electronica, glitch and ambient, and every piece tries to capture an ephemeral moment of emotion or feeling. Some are warm, analog sketches built from granular and tape experiments over light drums. Others reach for sonic alien worlds and cinematic scenes. It's all played on a small rig: Push 3, Digitakt 2, a few synths, guitar, and Tessella, an instrument Glenn built for Push. Process & Icon (20 November 2026) is the first EP, from the ambient end: four short pieces about the birth of a new facet of a person. The title track opens with nature noise, like crickets, and a synth growing slowly underneath. The EP closes with the first single, Sea of the Territory.