Writeup by Yxene for OscillArt

misc stega

May 13, 2026

The goal is to recover the image produced by an oscilloscope from the sound it emits.

There’s a project entirely dedicated to this type of “music”: Oscilloscope Music

Einstein meme listening to music - How I imagine people who listen oscilloscope music

And they have open-source software that lets you convert audio to an oscilloscope waveform: Oscilloscope! and on Github. But the Linux version is too old, so I couldn’t get it to work.

Fortunately, I found another project of this type: m1el/woscope: WebGL-powered oscilloscope

And this one is much more stable. Once installed and launched with:

npm install
npm run demo

All we have to do is put our file (converted to .ogg using Audacity) in the woscope/woscope-music directory and go to:

http://localhost:9966/?file=oscillart.ogg

Then we can read the flag:

FCSC{vector_flag_9739}

And that’s it, we’ve got our flame 🔥 !