Working in Mexico City with a group of participants, we staged a sound walk at the Plaza de La Constitución. Signs were made using diaries, texts and graphics developed from initial listening exercises enacted in different parts of the city – sound descriptions that explored poetical and metaphoric connections, that used the moment of listening as an elaboration of language, and that also led to modes of mark making and graphical rendering. The signs functioned as feedback onto the city, looping the sonorous events occurring there, living there, breathing there, and which mark the movements taking place on various street corners, within daily rituals, and as moments of interaction. The participants walked through the Plaza holding their signs, mirroring the expression of strikes and other forms of demonstrating, inserting instead the subjective and idiosyncratic articulation in place of the political slogan.
