In the spring of 2014 the Department of Music, through the President's Fund, funded Professor Mark Hannesson to visit Haan, Germany with the intention of meeting with composer Antoine Beuger. Beuger is a founding member of the , an international group of composers whose music is generally interested in issues relating to the extremes of silence, quiet, indeterminacy and duration.
Hannesson became a member of the Wandelweiser Collective in November 2014. Four of his pieces (The Perspective of Proximity, memory sustained, hoarfrost and the angel's game) were immediately published through Edition Wandelweiser.
In April 2015, American pianist performed Hannesson's memory sustained in Victoria, BC in a concert featuring Wandelweiser composers as part of Daniel Brandes' concert series, . Brandes is the only other Canadian member of the Wandelweiser Collective. This month Hannesson's piece, hoarfrost will be performed in a concert of Wandelweiser works in a curated by Yury Akbalkan and Denis Sorokin in St. Petersburg, Russia. Two days later, in the same festival, his vinyl release will be presented by Sergey Komarov and Vladislav Dobrovolsky with the other releases of the (St. Petersburg). On July 29, 2015, in D眉sseldorf, Germany, will perform memory sustained in the annual Wanderweiser festival, held in the Kunstraum D眉sseldorf. Later in the festival will premiere Hannesson's 70 minute work for piano, the angel's game.