das gras wies wächst (1969)

Ti­tle of the album: Das Gras wies wächst (Hörspiel)
Ti­tle: - (Seite 02)
La­bel: Deutsche Grammophon / Luchterhand, Germany
Da­te: 1969
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm

das gras wies wächst (the gas how it grows) is a radio drama by Franz Mon, produced in 1969 by Saarländischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Although it is more of a musical composition with rhythmic and melodic sequences, the radio drama is purely a speech piece.

Under the title Das Neue Hörspiel setzt sich durch (the new radio drama prevails), Heinrich Vornweg wrote about das gras wies wächst in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the 2nd of April 1970: "This radio drama, which consciously presupposes stereophony and understands spatial acoustics as a - in Mon's own words - 'syntactic means of ordering auditory events', no longer depicts an action, a process, which could also exist outside audible language, but allows sound elements themselves to enter into action as subjects. The collage that emerges in this way, however, is by no means a referenceless mobile, but articulates material zones in language with great urgency. Mon's collage (realised by the author himself) is also an autonomous listening event of quite astonishing format, a musical structure, so to speak, of extreme originality and perfection, produced out of pieces of language. Its material relevance is certainly beyond doubt, but at the same time, it tips over into the purely aesthetic dimension - a collage so full of tension and balance, so controversial and unified, so surprising and insightful that it floats in space like an object of strange perfection. An experiment that immediately reaches the dimension of classicism."

ATJ