About Kenneth Young

Kenny is from Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives near London working as an audio designer at Media Molecule, where he is responsible for the audio experience in the critically acclaimed, award winning PlayStation 3 title LittleBigPlanet. Before joining Media Molecule Kenny was employed as a sound designer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's London Studio where he worked on over a dozen titles including 24: The Game, EyeToy: Kinetic, Fired Up, Gangs of London, The Getaway: Black Monday and Heavenly Sword. Prior to this he studied music technology as an undergraduate and went on to gain an MA, with distinction, in sound design.

Kenny is an active member of the game audio community, sits on the Game Developers Conference Audio Advisory Board, and has spoken at GDC, GDC Europe, The Develop Conference, GameCity, the University of Edinburgh, Leeds College of Music and Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. In October 2005, Kenny set up www.gamesound.org as a resource for those wishing to learn more about sound for games.