Event overview
020 7919 7882
Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit Invited Speaker Series, 2010/11
Abstract
This talk will discuss three areas taken from my first PhD and will contain audio excerpts where appropriate. They are the possibility of music as a possible agent in telepathy experiments exploring the idea that musical experience might be communicated by means of the presence of an anomalous method of information transference. The second study researched the music that was claimed to have been composed by dead composers through musical mediums. Finally I investigated music that was claimed to have been heard when no physical source was available. I tried to discover the possible sources for anomalous music and explored various options.
Biography
Melvyn was born in St Albans, Herts. and attended a local grammar school. He received his first degree in 1972 and was later awarded a master's degree and Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. His first doctorate (Sheffield University) linked music with paranormal phenomena and a second doctorate (Bristol University) researched the place of music in historical and contemporary witchcraft.
An abiding interest has been the paranormal and the occult. Melvyn was a Council member of the Ghost Club and the Pagan Federation for many years and a member of the Parapsychology Association and Folklore Society. He is a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research and their Honorary Archive Liaison Officer.
He has led several investigations into alleged hauntings and poltergeist outbreaks. His first book Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal was published in 2005 with subsequent books in 2007, 2008 and 2010. He has also contributed a chapter to an academic book on the film The Wicker Man and an encyclopedia devoted to witchcraft. He advised on a project for the Freiburg Institute in Germany collating and publishing acoustical paranormal phenomena and he is currently a Perrott-Warrick scholar researching near death experiences from a music perspective.
APRU Invited Speaker Programme
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Feb 2011 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
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