Who I Am
I am Vivian Cox, also known by the alias f1urps.
I am a multi-media creator with a passion for many forms of creation and expression, especially music, visual art, poetry, graphic design, and game design.
I was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where I am currently based. I am a neurodivergent, bisexual trans woman.
I believe in honoring the inherent worth of every person, celebrating the complex beauty of our world, and living life to the fullest.
My Story
Since childhood, I’ve been a tinkerer with an overactive imagination who is more interested in computers, philosophy, and esoteric science fiction lore than other people. I never had a lot of friends, but the vivid worlds I built in my mind and expressed through art were always entertainment enough. It wasn’t until adulthood that I discovered my diagnoses of autism and ADHD.
I came out as transgender in 2015 at the age of 16, changing my name from Sebastian to Vivian, then started hormone therapy as soon as I turned 18. My transition has brought me such profound joy that I’ve never looked back, and my family is fully supportive, for which I feel incredibly fortunate and grateful.
My journey into music began in middle school band class, where I performed percussion and learned the fundamentals of music theory.
Soon afterwards in my teenage years, I discovered EDM and became fascinated with the vast frontier of electronic sound. I started creating my own music around 2012 using the iPhone app ‘Music Studio’ by Steinberg, releasing dozens of tracks under the pseudonym Mach9. Brostep was in fashion around this time, representing the peak of EDM’s overindulgence and experimentation that decade, so of course that’s what I challenged myself to make. None of these early works are particularly good to listen to — I would’ve had them purged from the internet by now if I could, out of sheer embarrassment — However, creating them was how I taught myself the fundamentals of electronic music and digital audio.
In the many years since, I’ve switched to FL Studio, changed my pseudonym to f1urps, explored a wide array of genres, and vastly improved my skills, and although the demands of adult professional life have slowed me down, I’ve never stopped. As of early 2025, I have 14 tracks officially licensed and published, and I intend to keep making more for as long as I can.
From 2016 to 2020, I attended the University of Texas at Austin, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
From there, I launched my career as a junior software engineer at Juniper Networks, then moved to Google in 2022. My primary area of focus was network automation in distributed systems. I got bored of it and quit in late 2024.
I love computer programming, especially for creative purposes such as graphic design, digital art, game design, and music. I have fond memories from my teenage years of spending hours tinkering with tools like Scratch, Processing, and Unity to create games, animations, and simulations. (In fact, my old Scratch account is still up!)
These days, I am self-employed as a freelance artist. My cat, Nico, accompanies me on my adventures as I explore the outdoors, live simply, play Magic: The Gathering with my family on weekends, and let my overactive imagination run wild in my home studio.