pseudo-antigone is the experimental pop and hyperpop project of philosopher and interdisciplinary artist Simone Atenea Medina Polo. The project is a site of experimentation and learning in pop music production, mixing, and mastering eventually paving the way for detailed and meticulous sound design that leans into metallic synth textures, loud fuzzy basses, and punchy beats characterizing her most recent releases. Driven by thorough MIDI pop compositions and intensely effected vocals, pseudo-antigone’s performance lives up to her emotional popstar nextdoor candor. With her latest album, Melancholic Melodrama (2025), pseudo-antigone tells a fictional biography about the contradictions and tensions of the escapist fantasy of becoming a popstar. Blurring the line between playful irony and heartbreaking earnesty, pseudo-antigone’s work opens her up to complexity both in sound intensity and in thematic scope.
