August 9 2016.
Fort Process is an expansive multidisciplinary music and arts festival taking place at Newhaven Fort on September the 3rd.
Following an acclaimed, sold-out debut in 2014, the festival is back for a second edition, with an extensive programme, (in excess of 100 artists), featuring sitespecific sound installations, international musicians, talks, films, poetry and workshops.
The Fort Process experience is quite unlike any other: half the festivalgoers are hidden underground, making their way through a warren of tunnels to listen to performances in eerie chambers and bolt holes. Meanwhile, above ground, the other half are roaming in and out of gun emplacements, radio shacks and laboratories on the fort’s ramparts.
Organiser, Lost Property Arts Collective, has aimed high with this year’s lineup , working with the Sasakawa Foundation to bring two renowned Japanese musicians Toshimaru Nakamura and Seijiro Murayama over to the UK especially for the festival.
In the Fort’s Grand Magazine, a very resonant bunker where the armaments were once kept, the German composer and percussionist Limpe Fuchs will hold court. Now in her mid-70s, Limpe is a veteran of the nomadic experimental counterculture arts group Anima; she will be bringing to the Fort the handbuilt largescale instruments she crafts from granite, scrap metal and found objects.
In the corrugated steelclad Romney Hut, the French inventor and trumpeter Pierre Bastien will perform with his musicmaking kinetic sculptures. Musical automata will also feature in Sarah Angliss’ performance and a space housing the Mechanical Techno Movement is explored as a significant theme of this year’s Fort Process.
Alongside the contraptions mentioned above, emphasis has been placed on the curation of ‘sound and moving image’ the festival will be presenting Sculpture’s zoetropic turntablism, the expanded 16mm horrorcinema of Sally Golding, and an installation by Dutch artist Mariska de Groot that explores optophonics with her analogue ‘lighttosound’ instruments.
Outside the event, there will be a programme of workshops from Seijiro Murakama, Eva Justka, Limpe Fuchs, Toshimaru Nakamura and more. Information on this will be publicised on the Lost Property website and social network.
For further information visit: www.fortprocess.co.uk Tickets on sale at www.wegottickets.com/event/367789