Cristina Checa holds a degree in Technical Telecoms Engineering and a postgraduate qualification in Global Music Management and works at the intersection between music, creativity and technology. As a result of her interest in learning new things, she has worked in television, taught technology and music courses for children (Mobile Week BCN, Universitat Jaume I), collaborated on the project “The role of artists in the revolution of artificial intelligence”, together with Google Magenta during Sónar+D, performed cultural management and musical consultancy tasks and developed the “Maker Relations” in the last edition of the Maker Faire Barcelona, among other activities.

She is a singer and producer with the Desert musical duo, with which she has so far released Camins/Desert (2013), Envalira (2014) and Sense likes (2017) and, having presented her work in cultural spaces (such as La Casa Encendida and La Pedrera) and festivals (including Sónar, FIB and SXSW), she regularly composes music for the audiovisual sector (Telefònica, Barcelona Design Week, Vogue, etc.), makes trailers for videogames and collaborates with companies in the technology sector. She has also recently participated in the field of music therapy and the psychology of music.

Biography made in 2018