Fort Process is a multi-disciplinary sonic arts festival set in

Newhaven Fort Newhaven Fort is a Palmerston fort built in the 19th century to defend the harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of England. It was the largest defence work ever built in Sussex and is now open as a museum. History Design and construction A ...

, Newhaven on the south coast of England, produced by Lost Property. The festival takes place within the structure of the 19th century coastal defence, commissioning

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installations and

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that respond to the fort's architecture and network of subterranean tunnels. The first edition was held in September 2014, with later editions in 2016 and 2018. The festival has been well received with positive reviews from ''The Wire'', ''

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'', ''Freq'' and others. The festival was initially conceived in 2012 by Alastair Kemp, founder of Newhaven's Eleusinian Press, who proposed the idea to a group of Brighton-based arts and music promoters. It was in response to East Sussex County Council announcing that Newhaven Fort would become privately run. The interested parties would form arts collective Lost Property to handle the festival's organisation. Across its three editions, the festival has presented a wide range of artists and musicians, including: Sarah Angliss,

Adam Basanta Adam Basanta (born 1985) is a Montreal-based artist and experimental composer whose practice investigates manifestations of technology as a meeting point of concurrent and overlapping systems. He uses various media (installation, kinetic sculptur ...

Pierre Bastien Pierre Bastien (born 1953 in Paris) is a French musician, composer, and experimental musical instrument builder. Life and career Bastien began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals ...

, Mike Blow,

Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

& Steve Noble, John Chantler,

Rhys Chatham Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952) is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist (flutes in C, alto and bass, keyboard), primarily active in avant-garde and minimalism, minimalist music. He is best known for his "g ...

, Audrey Chen,

Poulomi Desai Poulomi Desai is a British photographer, multi-media artist, curator and an activist community worker. A self-taught outsider artist originally inspired by a street theatre background, her works are performative, textual, image based, and acoustic ...

, Leslie Deere, Timothy Didymus, Graham Dunning,

Max Eastley Max Eastley (born 1 December 1944, Torquay, Devon, England) is a British visual and sound artist. He is part of the Cape Farewell Climate Change project. He studied painting and graphic art at Newton Abbot Art School and then went on to gain a BA ...

, Ex-Easter Island Head,

Michael Finnissy Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy". Although he rejects the label, he is often r ...

, Limpe Fuchs, Mariska de Groot, Ian Helliwell, Darsha Hewitt, Konk Pack, Kyoka, Joshua Le Gallienne, Grischa Lichtenberger, Liminal,

Toshimaru Nakamura Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar, and started working on circuit be ...

, Seijiro Murayama,

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

, Aura Satz,

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, Tim Shaw,

The Artaud Beats The Artaud Beats is a progressive rock band consisting of John Greaves (bass, vocals), Chris Cutler (drums) and Geoff Leigh (soprano sax, flute, vocals, electronics), all formerly members of Henry Cow, and Yumi Hara Cawkwell (piano, vocals). His ...

, Gabey Tjon a Tham, Tetsuya Umeda,

Zimoun Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. As self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxe ...

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{{reflist Arts festivals in England Newhaven, East Sussex Performing arts in England Festivals established in 2014 Recurring events established in 2014 Festivals in East Sussex