Margins of Sound Society

Margins of Sound Society MOSS exists to nurture creativity at the cultural and sonic edges. Inaugural Margins of Sound festival: June 26-28, 2026 - Nanaimo, BC

06/17/2026

Saturday, June 27
Location: Bowen Park Amphitheatre

Colliding Canyons is a psychedelic instrumental rock group from Nanaimo, BC. A fixture of the city’s independent arts and music community, the band blends traditional rock instrumentation with live electronics in an ongoing exploration of texture, atmosphere, and sound.

Known for their mesmerizing live performances, Colliding Canyons moves fluidly between driving rhythms, expansive soundscapes, and mind-bending sonic experimentation. Now celebrating more than a decade together, the group remains one of Nanaimo’s most distinctive and enduring independent music projects.

At MOS26, Colliding Canyons will be joined by MJ McGregor (Truth) to offer a free performance at Bowen Park Amphitheatre.

Check out Colliding Canyons' new release "Do It Again": https://collidingcanyons.bandcamp.com/album/do-it-again

🎟️Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026�
June 26-28�
Nanaimo, BC

06/16/2026

Saturday, June 27
Location: Bowen Park Amphitheatre

Bristol-born and Vancouver-based, Kuma has spent more than two decades shaping Canadian electronic music as a producer, DJ, curator, radio host, label owner, and advocate for adventurous sound.

Known for his deep contributions to bass music culture and Vancouver’s electronic music community, Kuma’s more recent work moves through expansive ambient territory where mood, texture, melody, and atmosphere unfold with patience and depth.

Drawing from sound system culture, experimental electronics, and contemporary ambient practice, Kuma creates immersive sonic worlds that reward presence, attention, and sustained listening.

We’re honoured to welcome a pioneering figure in Vancouver’s electronic music community to MOS26.

🎟️Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

06/15/2026

Friday, June 26
Location: OV Arts Centre

We’re delighted to welcome Nanaimo-based songwriter and musician Ora Cogan to MOS26.

Known for her singular voice and evocative songwriting, Ora’s work blends folk traditions, psychedelic atmosphere, and experimental composition into music that feels intimate, mysterious, and emotionally resonant.

Fresh off the release of her acclaimed new album Hard Hearted Woman, Ora will present a special solo performance for MOS26 distinct from her current full-band touring shows. Voice, fiddle, and atmospheric textures create an intimate listening experience that highlights a different side of her artistic practice.

🎟️Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

06/12/2026

Opening Performance • Friday, June 26
Location: OV Arts Centre

PhaseBloom is an electronic music and sound art project by MOSS cofounder Josh Rudolph.

Rooted in ambient, downtempo, dub, and deeper shades of techno, PhaseBloom uses generative synthesis and found sounds to explore chance, emergence, and the unexpected beauty of systems in motion.

Drawing from field recordings, generative synthesis, and a fascination with the patterns that emerge when structure meets uncertainty, the project creates immersive listening experiences that reward patience, attention, and curiosity.

PhaseBloom will open MOS26 on Friday evening, setting the stage for a weekend of listening, exploration, and discovery.

🎟️Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

06/11/2026

Saturday, June 27
Location: OV Arts Centre

kraKIN is an ecological hip-hop collaboration bringing together the sonic stylings of Ruby Singh, the amphibious intellect of Michael Datura (aka professah exile), and a boom-bap menagerie of West Coast flora, fauna, and fungi.

In an age of ecological crisis, kraKIN explores interconnection and our relationship with the living world. Using field recordings and biosonification technology, kraKIN transforms the bioelectric activity of the natural world into musical information. Cedar tree basslines, fungi-triggered 808s, wolf-howl synths, woodpecker hi-hats, and orca song textures converge in a uniquely place-based sound.

Part ecological portrait, part musical experiment, kraKIN blurs the boundaries between hip-hop, technology, ecology, and storytelling.

We’re thrilled to welcome award-winning interdisciplinary artist Ruby Singh and kraKIN to MOS26.

Ruby will also lead a Sunday workshop exploring field recording, deep listening, and creative approaches to engaging with sound and place.

🎟️Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

06/10/2026

Saturday, June 27
Location: OV Arts Centre

creates immersive performances that move fluidly between songwriting, contemporary composition, folk traditions, and experimental performance.

Using violin, voice, looping, and rhythmic improvisation, she builds rich musical tapestries that are intimate, playful, cinematic, and deeply human. Layered vocal textures, inventive songwriting, and virtuosic musicianship combine to create performances that feel both expansive and personal.

Hannah has collaborated and performed with artists including Fleet Foxes, Julianna Barwick, Ry X, and Shane Koyczan, and has appeared at folk, experimental, jazz, and contemporary arts festivals internationally.

We’re thrilled to welcome one of Canada’s most distinctive and compelling musical voices to Margins of Sound 2026.

🎟️Festival passes and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026

ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

06/09/2026

Friday, June 26
Location: OV Arts Centre

i+eo is an audiovisual and leftfield DJ duo comprised of IHA and ephemeral objects . Blending ambient textures, bass music, broken rhythms, and vivid live visuals, they create immersive performances that unfold as sites of transformation, reflection, and discovery.

Rooted in the West Coast underground electronic music scene and shaped by their shared experience as q***r Southeast Asian diaspora, i+eo’s work explores identity, fiction, and imagined futures through evolving sound and image.

Following their selection for the inaugural Incubator program, i+eo premiered Portals at MUTEK Montréal in 2025.

At MOS26, i+eo will present an immersive live audiovisual performance. IHA and ephemeral objects will also perform a b2b late-night DJ set as i+eo on Saturday night.

🎟️Festival passes and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026
ℹ️More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

Video: MUTEK Montreal 2025

06/08/2026

Friday, June 26
Location: OV Arts Centre

Prince Shima is a third-generation Japanese Canadian multi-instrumentalist based on Vancouver Island. Blending analog and digital instrumentation, his work creates lush cinematic compositions that explore memory, identity, displacement, ecology, and the emotional textures of place.

At MOS26, Prince Shima presents material from Camossung – Sawatobi-Ishi, a multidisciplinary work created in collaboration with visual artists Marianne Nicolson and Cindy Mochizuki. The project memorializes the shared and lost histories of displaced Japanese Canadians and Lekwungen people through music, animation, and storytelling.

The performance will feature original animations by Cindy Mochizuki, creating an immersive audiovisual experience rooted in history, memory, and place.

🎟️ Festival passes, workshop tickets, and AV showcase tickets are available now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/margins-of-sound--2026

ℹ️ More artist info, full festival descriptions, and ticket links can be found on our website: https://www.mossociety.ca/festival-2026

Margins of Sound 2026
June 26-28
Nanaimo, BC

Craft before clout. Practice before performance.
02/13/2026

Craft before clout.
Practice before performance.

02/02/2026

Why the margins matter:

The edges are sites of possibility. Fertile zones where experimentation can unfold. When attention deepens, new ways of creating and listening can emerge.

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