Hello. I’m Daniel Patrick Quinn.
I move at the intersections of geography, creativity and environmental inquiry. My work flows across writing, research, music, teaching and occasional consultancy – often threading together disciplines, landscapes and ways of thinking that rarely meet.
A single thread runs through everything I do: attending closely, mapping structure beneath apparent chaos and noticing beauty in overlooked terrain. Across writing, research and music, I chart neglected landscapes – mountains, sound and ideas – treating them not as curiosities but as cultural terrain alive with possibility.
Gunung.org is where these threads converge quietly: a space for topographic inquiry, poetic mapping and long-form projects that move across borders – geographic, disciplinary and planetary.
For over twenty years, I have taught, written, performed and wandered – sometimes in schools, sometimes across landscapes themselves – bringing together music, literature, philosophy and environmental science. My ongoing fascination lies in pattern-making, decision as perception and the metaphysical strangeness embedded in landscape.
Selected Highlights:
- 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.
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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 – and eventually, 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).
- Researcher and compiler of regional safety risk reports for SE Asia, drawing on over 15 years of direct field experience and continuous monitoring of natural hazards, infrastructure resilience and local security conditions. This work is ongoing; expressions of interest are essential to completing further regions.
Alongside my research and publications, I provide English-language website proofreading and editorial services for international clients, ensuring clarity, consistency and professional tone.
I live in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, yet often vanish and reappear like a shifting pattern in the landscape. If curiosity draws you – or you wish to propose something unusual, artistic, topographic, or strange – you will find a way.
—Daniel Patrick Quinn, February 2026
dan@gunung.org