Oliver Hagen

For musical bookings, see the 'Contact Me' section below.

About Me:

I'm a 23-year-old musician and hobbyist maker of various things. Currently based in Reading, UK, playing in Moonage, a David Bowie Tribute Band, and Mr. Pineapple, a somewhat silly and proggy rock band.

There's still a lot to write up, but this website aims to collect together various projects I've done over the years, including:

• A MIDI-based lightshow device for my keyboard
• The original score to a 5-star play
• Several kazoo-only cover albums
• An A*- earning EPQ
• Miscellaneous coding projects

I hope you find this stuff at least somewhat interesting, I certainly did.

Contact me:

If you wish to contact me, you can do so by clicking the below link. Write 'PENGUINATOR' in the subject box, or I won't see it.

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Stuff I've done

	Date	Category	Title
	2025-01-06	Making	Glow Lamp - a cheery night-light, powered by an Arduino
	2024-09-12	Making	MOOP1 - I outfitted an old set of organ foot pedals with MIDI for a friend in a prog band
	2024-02-08	Making	DivingBoard - A relatively cheap and easy-to-configure Sysex-capable MIDI controller, built to combat menu-diving
	2023-03-01	Music	Perfection Can't Be Rushed (but this sure can) - an EP in two weeks for the 2023 RPM challenge
	2022-12-27	Making	Solar Trader - bootlegging a board game
	2022-08-21	Music	Splinters Original Score - for the Dolphin Youth Theatre Company
	2022-03-03	Making	Wordle Solver using basic set theory, rather than AI
	2021-12-18	Music	Melancholy Christmas - Mutual Frogs
	2021-12-10	Music	Commonwealth App Song
	2021-05-30	Music	Obscure Covers (Vol. 1)
	2021-03-21	Making	SSTV Video Filter - The slowest way to apply a VHS filter to a video
	2020-09-01	Music	Morning Childhood [Original Album]
	2020-07-18	Making	Python Timelapse Camera
	2020-03-03	Music	Plastic Beach - Kazoo Edition
	2019-09-18	Music	Freight Train - my debut single

This Website:

This website has been written entirely manually as an exercise in learning HTML and CSS. It's obviously pretty basic, but at the moment seems mostly fit for purpose.

Current planned improvements include better scaling for mobile devices and very large screens, and some sort of dark mode which auto-switches depending on the timezone from which the site is accessed.

I do not plan on switching to a website supplier/designer such as Squarespace, because apparently I'm a stubborn old fart trapped in a young man's body.