I chose Richard D. James, most commonly known under Aphex Twin, as an artist who uses sound in interesting ways. Although can be considered more of a musician and composer over a "sound artist" as we've spoken about in class (favorites of mine: certainly John Cage and Liz Phillips and who i discovered the first week of class, Finnbogi Petursson), I think what he did and does to electronic music is incredible. I've never been into dance music really but he opens up the genre of constant beats with new ways of organizing the rhythms and crazy textures. He also addresses "ambient music" in similar ways. In all of this, he was kind of a contemporary pioneer in electronic music really taking control and creating a whole new format.
I was also interested to see that in one of his works in the early 00's, a pretty rare ep, he released a track with mostly high pitch noises that could be decoded to form an image using the correct software which made me think of when I was working with the picture and sound. This was the clearest image I could find of it:
He also worked closely with Chris Cunningham for a number years making music videos/films with his music, and both art forms equally feed on each other. Here's an example:
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