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About ÉDM:
Currently offering more than 40 of Wingate’s original and transcriptional scores, the music publishing house Éditions δαίμων (Daimon) Mondiales is named after those lesser deities of the ancient Greek world known as the Daimonia or ‘Daimons’—beings which were seen as intermediaries between the mortal and the divine, guiding human actions or representing abstract ideas. For ÉDM’s eponymic purposes, the abstraction in question might be no less than Music itself—this Daimon of Music gravely emblematized as an ear held in perpetual ravishment by a fermata, that symbolic elongator of musical time (and de facto pictographic ‘eye’). All this is further encased inside a white pyramid (geometrical cousin to the contemporary art world’s white cube), creating a mysterious colophon or publisher’s crest evoking the famous Masonic Eye of Providence—or here rather a kind of neoglyphic Ear of Providence.
The word δαίμων survives into modern English as ‘Daemon’ or ‘Demon’, but the ÉDM imprint purposefully and perversely uses the name without any of the unholy undertones later inherited from devil-obsessed Christendom. It is said that Socrates himself hearkened unto these mysterious inner voices, a fact which imbues these beings with an inescapable philosophical sheen over an inbuilt homage to Classical Antiquity. Éditions Daimon Mondiales seeks to align itself looking both forward and backward in the greater humanities, like those spirits of the Renaissance who saw themselves as part of history, both as heirs and as transmitters. It is fitting that the first opera in the Western classical tradition (Jacopo Peri’s Dafne, from 1597) was born from an attempt by a coterie of clever 16th century Florentines to recreate the experience of Ancient Greek drama, which they realized had been sung—the result of this inspiration inadvertently being the creation of opera itself. And as guiding spirits or genii here in what we now somewhat uneasily refer to as the modern world, it is hoped that the Daimonia might condescend to guide the publication of these new musical scores, perhaps offering once again to our ears those ancient tutelary whispers, subliminally sung on the vibrating winds of time.
Many of Wingate’s conductor’s scores and performer’s parts are available in both digital and printed formats, but any work(s) not otherwise represented in the catalogue may be readily accessed via special arrangement by contacting Éditions Daimon Mondiales directly at the address below:
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