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Inflation Syncopation – Derek Redican
A short video about economic tension, visual absurdity, and the music of instability.
Inflation Syncopation is a short visual piece about economics, absurdity, and the strange performance we all take part in when prices rise and logic collapses.
It borrows the language of jazz — rhythm, improvisation, off-beat timing — and uses it as a metaphor for inflation itself: unpredictable, disruptive, and oddly theatrical. The instruments become oversized symbols of excess, while the performers feel both formal and faintly ridiculous, like they’re trying to maintain dignity inside a system that’s slipping out of tune.
The work leans into contrast: classic suits and smooth compositions paired with inflated, balloon-like objects that feel too bright, too glossy, too unreal.
Because inflation doesn’t just change numbers.
It changes behaviour.
It alters mood, confidence, and the subtle atmosphere of everyday life. People begin to move differently. Spend differently. Think differently. And yet the show goes on — politely, professionally, with a smile.
Inflation Syncopation is that moment captured visually:
the band still playing, while the room quietly heats up.