top of page
Ina's%20Logo%20-%20with%20transparency_edited.png

Vocalist · Composer · Improviser

ELECTRONIC PRESS KIT

IF_6495_edited.jpg
album-cover.jpg

Evening Light: Raga Cycle I

Cantaloupe Music, 2026

Co-created and co-composed by Michael Harrison and Ina Filip, Evening Light: Raga Cycle I opens an eight-album arc inspired by the time-cycle tradition of Indian classical music.

PRESS

"Sonically quite unique and deeply enjoyable."

CD Hotlist - May 18, 2026

PRESS RELEASES

Press Release

International · album context · artist bios

Communiqué de presse

Contexte artistique · médias Québec

SHORT BIO

Ina Filip is a vocalist, composer and improviser known for her emotionally resonant voice and boundary-blurring collaborations. Born in Brazil and based in Québec, she weaves together a wide-ranging vocal language shaped by classical Indian Dhrupad, Brazilian musicality, modal improvisation and contemporary experimental practice.

A disciple of the renowned Gundecha Brothers, Ina Filip was deeply shaped by Bobby McFerrin’s approach to voice and improvisation, and by her studies with composer Michael Harrison exploring the meeting place between Hindustani raga and minimalist music.

Ina is the lead vocalist and co-creator of the first three albums in Michael Harrison’s Raga Cycle Project, where her voice helps shape a genre-defying fusion of classical Indian ragas, minimalist piano and polyphonic vocal innovation.

LONG BIO

Ina Filip is a Brazilian-born, Québec-based vocalist, composer and improviser whose work bridges modal improvisation, contemporary composition, and classical traditions. Known for her emotionally resonant voice and genre-defying versatility, she draws from years of rigorous study in Indian classical music, Brazilian musicality, and experimental vocal art to shape a vocal language that is both deeply personal and expansively collaborative. Her artistic foundation was forged through several years living and studying in India, where she immersed herself in Dhrupad, one of the most microtonal and meditative forms of Indian classical music, under the guidance of the renowned Gundecha Brothers. Dhrupad’s precision in tuning, focus on resonance, and integration of breath and stillness continue to ground her evolving practice as a composer and improviser. In parallel, her improvisational language has been profoundly shaped by Bobby McFerrin’s approach to voice and improvisation. Over the years, she has explored and embodied this influence through deep listening, playful experimentation, workshops with Bobby McFerrin’s students and collaborators, and a formative workshop with McFerrin himself. Ina is a lead vocalist and co-creator of the first three chapters of Raga Cycle, Michael Harrison’s multi-album arc exploring the meeting point between Hindustani raga, minimalist piano, and harmonic tuning systems. As lead vocalist and co-composer, she helps shape a body of work that merges raga-inspired modal improvisation with minimalist piano, polyphonic vocal writing, and electroacoustic aesthetics. The first album has been released, while subsequent chapters continue to unfold. Following Harrison’s passing, Filip has been entrusted with the posthumous development and production of the next chapters of Raga Cycle, working alongside composer and producer Elliott Cole and producer Benoit Rolland. Her collaborative scope extends into interdisciplinary creation. She co-created the music for 24 Hours at Once, an installation with Harrison and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Bill Morrison, presented by Art Letters & Numbers in New York, and contributed to Passage, a project with Harrison, musicians, and visual artist Nina Elder, presented at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in North Carolina. Ina’s voice has appeared in contexts ranging from ambient electroacoustic scores to raga-based vocal polyphonies. Her projects include Cantos de Ma, a solo album centered on voice and silence, and Polyphonic Malkauns, a contemporary reinterpretation of raga with composer Payton MacDonald. She has also contributed to the global electronic scene, recording with producers such as Soohan and Adham Shaikh, whose works featuring her vocals reached international audiences. Across all her projects, Ina’s voice carries the discipline of long-dedicated practice and the freedom of improvisation, inviting listeners into a space of resonance, presence, and expanded perception.

credits: Gabriel Boieiras

credits: Benoit Rolland

credits: Livia Sá

credits: Richmond Lam

Click on the image to download the HR version.

Water Jhala (Official Video)
3:42 - ft. Michael Harrison

24 Hours @ Once — installation promo
3:43 — with Bill Morrison

HIGHLIGHTS

​​

Raga Cycle — Co-creator and Co-composer of Chapters I–III

Raga Cycle is an eight-album arc by composer and pianist Michael Harrison exploring the meeting point between Hindustani raga, minimalist piano, harmonic tuning systems, and contemporary vocal creation.

As lead vocalist, co-creator and co-composer of the first three chapters, Ina Filip helped shape the project’s artistic language through composition, vocal polyphony, improvisation, production guidance, and aesthetic direction.

The first album, Evening Light: Raga Cycle I, is complete and released through Cantaloupe Music. The second and third chapters are currently in posthumous development.

Following Harrison’s passing, Filip has been entrusted with the continuation of this work alongside composer-producer Elliott Cole and producer Benoit Rolland.

​A Student in a Rare Musical Lineage

The encounter between American minimalism and Hindustani music gave rise to a rare artistic lineage shaped through the work of Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and later Michael Harrison.

As one of the subsequent torch-bearers of this tradition, Harrison carried these influences into his own explorations of raga, harmonic tuning systems, and minimalist composition.

Through mentorship, apprenticeship, and six years of close artistic collaboration with Harrison, Ina Filip absorbed elements of this lineage while developing her own artistic language rooted in voice, improvisation, polyphony, and cross-cultural creation.

​​

24 Hours @ Once — Installation with Academy Award–Nominated Filmmaker Bill Morrison

24 Hours @ Once is an immersive installation created in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Bill Morrison.

As co-composer and performer, Ina Filip contributed to the creation of a resonant world of moving image and layered sound that expands the sonic universe of Raga Cycle into an interdisciplinary experience.

Premiered at RPI (New York) in 2024, the installation is envisioned as an evolving long-term project that will continue taking new forms in the years to come.

​​

24 Hours @ Once — Broadcast into Space through Xu Bing’s Space Art Residency

 

24 Hours @ Once later travelled into outer space through a collaboration with Chinese artist Xu Bing, whose Space Art Residency is the world’s only satellite-based artist residency.

As part of the project, Xu Bing broadcast a video excerpt of the installation from orbit, extending 24 Hours @ Once beyond the gallery into a cosmic context of image, sound, and transmission.

Désancrage — Title Borrowed from Québécois Storyteller and Poet Simon Gauthier

The title Désancrage — a word that does not exist grammatically in French — is borrowed from the final work of Québécois storyteller and poet Simon Gauthier. The song carries this invented word into music as an image of unmooring, passage, and transformation.

csm_Logo_CALQ_noir_725x300_373aca8cfe.png

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST
Receive occasional updates on concerts and new music.

Thanks for submitting!

bottom of page