Making money is usually a by-product of something else-information is moved here or there, labor applied and exchanged, then the capital flows. But nowhere is provoking profit a more directly practiced mania than in the Pit, the arena of acquisitive activity at the Mercantile Exchange. In the Pit, traders-using an arcane vocabulary of wild hand gestures, codified postures, and insistent, barking voices-fix commodity prices in the futures flow. Called open outcry, this form of trading is a delirious display where the value of an ounce of gold or a gallon of gas leaps and lunges like a dance of dollars as the traders themselves perform grand pecuniary pirouettes. Ben Rubin's audio portrait Open Outcry (2003, 7 mins, CD, From Ear Studio) is a soundscape where the ebb and flow of futures has the passion of an aria, even as pork bellies plummet. To the sound of mercantilism, Jon Else, in his riveting work also titled Open Outcry (2000, 57 mins, Color, Beta SP, From the artist), adds image. Else's exhilarating, real-time sequences in the Pit really show you the money.