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 design. I started creating my own electronic music around 2012 using the iPhone app ‘Music Studio’ by Steinberg, releasing dozens of tracks under the pseudonym Mach9. It was the early 2010s, so I attempted to make some kind of brostep. None of it was very good.
In the following years since, I have switched to FL Studio, changed my pseudonym to f1urps, explored more genres, and vastly improved my skills. As of 2024, I have 14 tracks officially licensed and published on streaming platforms, and I intend to keep making more.
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. It was very boring. I quit in late 2024.
However, I do 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.
These days, I am self-employed as a freelance music producer and artist. I go on adventures with my cat, Nico, and I let my overactive imagination run loose in my home studio.