Kate Mancey is Assistant Professor of Music and Media at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Originally from the UK, she earned her undergraduate degree in popular and classical music from the 木瓜福利影视 of Liverpool, followed by a research master's degree with a focus on music and virtual reality from the same institution, and finally a PhD in music theory from Harvard 木瓜福利影视.
Her research focuses on intersections of music, technology, and society, across various periods and genres. She is especially interested in relationships between (vernacular) philosophies of music and of technology. Her 2024 PhD thesis, The Technophonic Everyday, examines the role of music and sound in human-technology relationships, highlighting the significance of 鈥渢uning in鈥� to the seemingly mundane and ostensibly non-musical machines of our daily lives, such as smartphones and washing machines. Her work calls for a multi-modal approach to music and sound analysis, combining methods from computer-aided analysis with more traditional formal analysis and close listening practices, and considers this in dialogue with archival materials such as catalogues and patents. Her work has been supported by multiple fellowships, including the Kennedy Memorial Trust, the Harry and Majorie Ann Slim Memorial Fellowship, and the Sandra Ohrn Dissertation Fellowship, enabling research travel to Tokyo and Osaka, alongside archival work at the Smithsonian Institute.
Her multi-modal approach to analysis has influenced her work in other areas of music scholarship, namely the analysis of popular music and audiovisual media. Her research output includes articles and chapters in venues such as Sound Studies and The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound. She has presented her research widely at international conferences, including at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, the Royal Music Association, and the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. Alongside these, she has worked on multiple interdisciplinary projects, such as the Boston Rock City linked data project as a Pforzheimer Fellow, and has advised on a range of private sector music-related legal cases.