The Delfines is an contemporary experimental music duo formed by George Bastian and Cléo Luna June’s collaborative work that combines instruments, voice, movement, performance art, and electronic sounds. Their performances blend field recordings, sampled textures, and theatrical elements to create narrative soundscapes inspired by natural environments and mythical imagery.
Connected through their shared passion for ocean advocacy and storytelling, Paired with vivid performance art, The Delfines set out to transform ecological storytelling into cinematic sonic experiences to romanticize the natural world to inspire hope.
George Bastian is a Vancouver based musician, composer, and sound artist currently studying Music & Sound at Simon Fraser University. His work explores the combination of experimental, ambient, and electronic music by the inspiration from natural environments, imagination, storytelling, and the relationship between sound and place.
Working with piano, bass, synthesizers, field recordings, and digital production, George creates soundscapes that blends the atmospheric textures, timbres, and exploratory musical forms. His practice is driven by his curiosity and experimentation, which often combines acoustic and electronic elements to discover new sound possibilities.
Originally trained as a pianist, George's musical background spans through ensemble performance, improvisation, composition, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through his recordings and creative projects, he continues to explore how sound can create environments, emotions, and imagined worlds.
He also made solo projects that reflects on his interest in texture, atmosphere, and creative exploration through sound. His releases include the experimental EPs "Aphotic Depths" and "Nano".
Cléo Luna June is an interdisciplinary contemporary singer-songwriter, performance artist, actor, sound artist, poet, dancer, producer, and filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. Cléo creates performances that feel both cinematic and classic with a feminine touch.
Known for her vivid songwriting, magnetic stage presence, and bridging different artistic mediums in different settings, Cléo's music explores the feminine experience through themes of sexuality, desire, power, vulnerability, and womanhood.
Moreover, she has a diverse background having performed in a number of music groups as a singer, songwriter, musician playing guitar, bass, and keys in multiple genres including rock, pop, r&b, folk, jazz, and theatre.
When she isn't making music, she is both in front and behind the camera making films, dancing, and acting. Cléo writes and performs her poetry. She is involved in initiatives supporting mental health care, safe sexual health care, supporting the Vancouver Downtown East Side, and fundraising for aid in Gaza.
She also studies performance art at Simon Fraser University. She documents her artistic journey on her YouTube channel.