I am Daniel Patrick Quinn and Gunung.org is where my work, ideas and explorations converge. I move between writing, research, music, mentorship and advisory practice, often following threads that span disciplines, landscapes and ways of thinking. A selection of projects, publications and creative works can be explored here.
I am involved in several long-term project roles:
Co-Founder of the Gunung Bagging non-profit initiative which since 2009 has grown into the most comprehensive online guide to the mountains and volcanoes of Indonesia, Malaysia and Timor-Leste. The project traces physical and cultural terrain, combining fieldwork, mapping and narrative. Key milestones include the 2014 ‘Making Tracks’ project (supported by the Royal Geographical Society), the guidebook Gunung Nusantara (2021), talks on Java’s mountains and volcanoes (2022), and Exploring Malaysia’s Mountains (2024). In 2025, the project expanded across Southeast Asia, unfunded but undeterred.
Custodian and coordinator of the World Ribus Database, cataloguing the 7,151 mountains on Earth with ≥1000 m topographic prominence. Like the Munros for the whole planet, it is a map of prominence, pattern and perception, rather than merely elevation. Launched alongside the book The Relative Mountains of Earth: The Ribus (2024), the project now extends to the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Ceres and Vesta – and eventually to Earth’s hidden seamounts – tracing topography as cultural and planetary terrain.
Artistic Director of the experimental music project One More Grain, releasing seven albums across an array of styles, instrumentation and conceptual approaches. Works include the trilogy concluding with Modern Music (2023) and the boundary-crossing Beans on Toast with Pythagoras (2022). The project was critically acclaimed – Sunday Times Album of the Week, broadcasts on BBC Radio 1, 3, and 6Music – yet always remained a laboratory for sound, perception and inventive practice.