In addition to architecture and urban space, the environment contributes, over and above any administrative boundaries, to making territories meaningless for subjects. This article addresses the relationship between space and sound, understood as a sound landscape, in the San Nicolás district of Cali, a place with a long tradition that is close to change due to urban renewal policies and modernisation dynamics in the graphic industry, an activity which predominates and identifies the sector. In addition to dwellings, the district has been home since 1894 to a large number of small printing houses, which leave a sound footprint, due to the subtle ‘industrial sinfony’ that the strike of old and new machines offers the pedestrian at 8: 00 am at 6: 00 pm. Resulting from two years of research, the article develops a theoretical proposal by defining the concept of noise territory which was subsequently validated in the case study. It advocates an interdisciplinary approach involving the opinion of the community and using methodologies that combine morphological analysis of space with recording, audio measurements and listening to the landscape expressed in maps.