TIM FEENEY

Mueller Tunnel

Collaborative sound environment with Cassia Streb and Cody Putman.

The Mueller Tunnel is located in the Angeles Mountains, roughly 20 miles north of Pasadena, California. The hundred-yard tunnel was blasted out of the middle of the mountain by the US Forest Service in 1942 to serve as a fireroad gateway to the summit of Mount Lowe. A landslide in 2009 closed the tunnel to motor vehicles, and today it is only accessible by driving to the Eaton Saddle trailhead and hiking or cycling further towards Mount Markham, sometimes with a wagon full of recording equipment and an instrument on your back.

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Sound recording with 40-page photo essay, with photography by Eric Basta and graphic transcriptions by Cassia Streb.

Released as Full Spectrum Records FS086, 2020.

Reviews by Jack Davidson in Noise Not Music and Vanessa Ague in The Road to Sound.