Timber - Opening Night | Überschlag Festival 2026

Opening Night - Timber by Michael Gordon - six players in a circle. Timber. Pulse. The Holzhalle becomes a resonating space and sets the tone for the festival.

With the Opening Night, überschlag 2026 sets its focus: away from the digital and towards the physical, tangible, essential. Michael Gordon's Timber forms the starting point.

Six players create a dense network of pulse, resonance and minimal shifts on tuned wooden planks.

What emerges is less a concert than a state: rhythmic, hypnotic, physical. The work will be performed by the host ensemble Rummsfeld - the percussionists of the Hanover State Opera - together with musical friends.

The wooden hall itself becomes an instrument. Wood meets wood, sound meets architecture. The audience moves around in the space, not listening from the outside, but finding themselves in the middle of the action - in a vibrating body of sound.

Timber reduces everything to the essentials: Material, movement, time. This is precisely where its power lies. An archaic prelude that makes the festival theme immediately tangible.