Hello. I’m Daniel Patrick Quinn.
My work spans mountain research, psychogeography, experimental music and environmental writing.
Whether documenting the world’s most topographically prominent mountains, developing new ways of understanding planetary landscapes, or creating music rooted in place, movement and memory, I am interested in how hidden structures shape our experience of the world.
Gunung.org brings together these interests: a space for topographic inquiry, poetic mapping and long-form projects that move across geographic, disciplinary and planetary borders.
For more than two decades I have taught in schools and universities, written books and articles, performed internationally and travelled extensively across mountain regions from Southeast Asia to the Scottish Highlands.
Selected Highlights:
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Founder and Artistic Director of One More Grain (2006–2025), a critically acclaimed experimental music project with multiple genre-defying releases, international broadcasts and press recognition, including Sunday Times Album of the Week.
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Co-founder of Gunung Bagging (est. 2009), a field-tested regional authority and the leading English-language guide to the mountains and volcanoes of the Indonesian archipelago, expanded in 2025 to cover all of Southeast Asia.
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Custodian of the World Ribus Database, the first complete register of all 7,151 Earth mountains with ≥1000 m prominence, now extending to the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Ceres and Vesta, with future work planned on Earth’s hidden seamounts.
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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).
- Creator of The Shimmer Method, a living philosophical practice that explores perception as a craft – drawing on pre-Socratic philosophy, psychogeography and contemporary creative intelligence through immersive, dialogical mentorship.
I live in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, yet often vanish and reappear. New collaborations, peculiar projects and unexpected conversations are always welcome.
—Daniel Patrick Quinn, February 2026
dan@gunung.org