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Emmalie Written by Erica Jett. Performed by Erica Jett, D. Edwards, & I. Scroggins

Ticker Tape Written by Erica Jett. Performed and premiered by the University of New Mexico Percussion Ensemble at the UNM Composer's Symposium in 2001. Both the score and cd are now available for purchase.

What would history sound like if it were music? The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was a devastating and unforgettable event in U.S. history. From 1925 to 1929, the prices of stock flourished, more than doubling in value. By the summer of 1929, the stock market dominated the news and the culture. Late 1920's American society was consumed with becoming wealthy, and the stock market was viewed as an easy way to get rich. The Crash as well as the Boom caused trauma on normal needs for money, home, family, and goods, while symbolizing the superfluous greed of a presumed invincible socity. Not only did the Crash reveal society's false sense of security, it led to the Great Depression, an increase in suicide, bank failures, defaulting employees, destitute families and the end of the Roaring Twenties known as the Jazz Age.

Ticker Tape is a percussion ensemble piece for twelve players that is a mathmatical, musical representation of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. One stock is assigned to each of the twelve players. These twelve stocks rise and fall over the course of thirty-four days selected from 1928 to 1932. The thirty-four days were chosen based on significant and record-breaking dates prior to and after the Crash mentioned in John Kenneth Galbraith's, The Great Crash of 1929.

Erica designed an accompaniment CD that that employs quotes, music, and sound effects from politics, current events, entertainment, film, and literature between 1928 and 1932. It represents the atmosphere that surrounded the Stock Market. This atmosphere consisted of elements like Jazz music and dance, controversial literature, talkies, color television, the Model "A", aviation advancements, prohibition, racketeering, the Valentine's Day Masacre, the Teapot Dome Scandal, and the shift from Hoover's presidency to FDR's.

Animal & Janice Written by Erica Jett in 2000. Performed and premiered by Erica Jett & Joseph Williams II. Recorded 2000.