First Light's Third Space #7 - Ekin Fil & Yuting Wu - 18th April 2022

Each month, **https://www.firstlightrecords.co.uk** invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique sounds of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

This month’s **Third Space** was created by Ekin Fil (Istanbul) and Yuting Wu (Beijing).

The first half of the show captures the sounds and music of a daytime in and around Istanbul. Including the areas Kadıköy, Acıbadem, Yenikapı, Eminönü, Sirkeci, Kabataş and Beyoğlu, as well as Darıca where Fil’s family lives on the border of the city.

In the second half of Third Space, Yuting Wu takes us around Beijing from the perspective of an outsider in the city. The first part of the mix emphasises the typical impressions of Beijing: the public transportation, the crowds, the opera, along with a street musician playing saxophone in the park. Beneath these surface impressions, Wu explores the disappointment