Elena Hidalgo, descendant of Julián Sánchez "El Charro", grew up in an environment surrounded by IBM mainframes, punched cards and first personal computers (Amstrad CPC 6128, Atari Portfolio, etc.). Her father, Ángel Hidalgo, is a pioneer of computer science and systems analysis in Spain. He was trained by the American technology company NCR Corporation and founded the company Centro de Análisis y Producciones Informáticas CEANPRIN, S.L.

She starts composing electronic music at the beginning of 1990s by using MIDI synthesizers with the sequencer Cubase running on Apple Macintosh SE. Since then, her academic background is centred on Music Technology based on Semiotics and Psychology of sound by using programming languages such as SuperCollider, Max4Live and Pure Data.

She starts a PhD at Huddersfield University, she has a Music Education Degree and Bachelor`s Degree in Musicology with a Master in Hispanic Music with specialty in Ethnomusicology from the University of Valladolid (Spain).
She has the qualification of Piano Professional Degree at the Valladolid Music Conservatory taught by prestigious pianists such as José Ramón Echezarreta and piano technique by José Carlos Crespo López, and composition by Antón García Abril.

She has Sound Technician Diploma at Microfusa School in Barcelona and she is a Web Developer since 2005.

In 2005, she starts up her own company based on engineering, computer sciencies and music projects alongside with writing articles related to sound equipment.
In the same year, she starts working as a Assistant Engineer in Armando Records recording folk, metal and sacre music.

During 2006-2012, she teaches at the Education School of the Musical Didactics, Plastic and Corporal Expression Departament of University of Valladolid and at the Music section of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of University of Valladolid and Salamanca (Spain).

In 2007, she travels to Los Angeles (U.S.A) to investigating and music promoting where she gets in touch with Sound Engineers and Producers such as José "Chilitos" Valenzuela (author of 9 audio engineering books), Rafa Sardina (18 Grammy Awards), Kenny O´Brien (5 Grammy Awards) and Fernando Cavazos (2 Grammy Awards and 6 nominations).

In 2008, she works as a Research Technician developing E-learning audiovisual contents for the MultiCom (Multimedia Collection Management) research project (NºI/06/b/F/PP-154013). It was financed by Leonardo Da Vinci programm.

In 2010, she is visiting researcher at the UCLA University of California (Los Angeles, U.S.A) and visiting scholar at the Huddersfield University (U.K) , in this latter receiving training in sound field from Kim Cascone , Julio d´Escriván and Monty Adkins among others. During 2017-28 is member of Sound Design and Video Mapping Coordination Group of the European Programme HEART OF EUROPE.

At the present, she is Voting Member of the Grammy Awards and the Latin Grammy Awards , she is Teacher specialised in sound in Advanced School of Image and Sound and Piano Teacher at Escuela Municipal de Música de Valladolid , and Member of SGAE and MAPVA and CIMA.
She combines education, offering seminars, workshops, masterclasses and international lectures & papers (Germany, Spain, Portugal, England), she writes articles, she studies Physics at UNED and composes film music specialized in thriller (Candidate for GOYA awards 2024) and electronic music for different events such as Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week,Unión Europea de Radiotelevisión/European Broadcasting Union (UER/EBU), El Corte Inglés, SIAL ediciones, Sons Creativos (USC), UNICEF, OXFAM, Festival Punto de Encuentro and Zawp among others.

[RESEARCH INTERESTS ~]
Dolby Atmos ~ Sound Design ~ Audio Programming Language ~ Music Computing ~ Audio Branding ~ Semiotics of Sound ~ Music Technology ~ Electroacoustic Musicology ~ Neuroeducation ~ Video Mapping.