Hello. I’m Daniel Patrick Quinn.
I work at the crossroads of geography, creativity, music, cognition and environmental science. My multidimensional expertise spans writing, composition, research, consultancy, teaching, public speaking and environmental coordination. The thread running through it all is consistent: a commitment to deep inquiry, uncovering structure beneath apparent chaos and seeking beauty in overlooked terrain.
Gunung.org is the quiet convergence of those threads: a place for topographic research, poetic documentation and projects that reach beyond borders – geographic, disciplinary, or planetary.
Over the past two decades, I’ve taught in international schools and universities, spoken at embassy-affiliated events, and built interdisciplinary work across music, literature, education, philosophy and environmental science. My lifelong interests lie in pattern-making, decision logic and the metaphysical strangeness of landscape.
Regional Safety & Risk Reports for Southeast Asia (in progress, expected October 2025)
Over the last 15 years I have built up an unrivalled knowledge of mountains, landscapes and the realities of travel across Indonesia, Malaysia and wider Southeast Asia. These reports draw on that direct experience as well as extensive monitoring of natural hazards, infrastructure resilience and local security issues.
Other highlights:
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Founder and Artistic Director of the critically-acclaimed group One More Grain (2006–2025), with multiple genre-defying albums, international broadcasts and press acclaim including Sunday Times Album of the Week.
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Co-founder of Gunung Bagging (est. 2009), field-tested regional authority and the leading English-language guide to the mountains and volcanoes of the Indonesian archipelago, now expanding across Southeast Asia.
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Custodian of the World Ribus Database: the first and only register of all 7,149 Earth mountains with ≥1000m topographic prominence, now extending to the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Ceres and Vesta. Eventually: Earth’s hidden seamounts. A rare metaphysical atlas, unfolding with the data.
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Author of works spanning mountain classification (The Relative Mountains of Earth, Gunung Nusantara), creative cognition (All the Different Yous) and experimental memoir (No What What).
I live in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, but tend to vanish and reappear. If you’re curious, or wish to propose something unusual – whether artistic, topographic or risk-related – you’ll find a way.
—Daniel Patrick Quinn, August 2025
dan@gunung.org