Other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships this year include the photographer Matt Black, the artist and film-maker Garrett Bradley and the social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson

The non-profit honours creative practitioners across the US annually with unrestricted grants; this year's cohort includes Caroline Kent, Gala Porras-Kim, and Rashaad Newsome

Jones and Porras-Kim were selected for their rigorous works highlighting, respectively, overlooked sonic phenomena and institutional collecting practices