Last year, Make Music Winter, the annual solstice celebration of participatory performance, took place with an emphasis on its final word. I joined in “Winterize,” the baritone Christopher Dylan Herbert’s peripatetic outdoor version of Schubert’s “Winterreise,” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a raw, gray afternoon as chilly as the melancholy score.

This year’s iteration of the citywide festival, on Saturday, was decidedly different. Temperatures soared into the 60s, and the sky was full of sunshine and fluffy clouds. It was a springlike climate for some of the performances that have grown into traditions since 2011, when Make Music Winter was added as a companion to the original Make Music New York, which takes place in June. Saturday brought not just another “Winterize” but repeats of projects like Daniel Goode’s “SoHo Gamelan Walk” (drumming on the hollow cast-iron fronts of SoHo buildings) and James Holt’s “Thru-Line” (a union of the G train and Bach’s cello suites).

I took part in a new addition, “Blink,” by the young Spanish engineer turned artist and composer Merche Blasco. The piece called for participants to bring their bicycles, and 50 or 60 of us congregated at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn at 4:30 in the afternoon, just as the sun was setting behind the trees of Prospect Park. Like all the Make Music events, the charm was in the crowd’s range, from children to the elderly and from skilled bikers to those whose experience seemed — how shall I phrase this? — more limited.

Each cyclist received a bell, the different sizes — and, therefore, pitches — marked with different-colored labels. From Ms. Blasco’s helmet protruded small light bulbs in the five colors that matched those on the labels. (She looked like a 1920s vision of a 21st-century future.) The instructions were simple: When your color lit up, you gave your bell a single ring. I had yellow, which to my selfish ears made the most shimmering sound of all.