The Broadcast Education Association will award UNHM Communication Arts Professor Anthony Tenczar its top audio award during its Festival of Media Arts held April 28 at the organization’s annual conference in Las Vegas. Tenczar’s audio promo titled “12 Songs: Music Programming by Humans” has been selected for the Best of Festival Award.

The promo was made to promote the 12 Song music program on the school’s internet media website UNHM.NET. The piece features futuristic sound design and robotic voices discussing the novelty of music programming done by humans rather than machines. Tenczar says, “the spot essentially reflects what my audio students think about contemporary music radio, they don’t like the repetition and the formula.” As a result Tenczar created the 12 song music program where students could program play lists based solely on their own musical tastes.

Tenczar is an award winning documentary and experimental filmmaker who teaches media production, media programming and moving image aesthetics in UNHM’s Communication Arts program. The school’s media specialist Jamy Cote assisted Tenczar with the production and was the spot’s associate producer. Tenczar’s promo can be heard on UNH Manchester’s media website found at:  http://www.unhm.net. The website features student produced audio programming as well as some short student-made films.

The Broadcast Education Association is the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students who are interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises. The organization has more than 1,400 individual and institutional members.