49 FLUTES, 3 P.M.

Still, Small Voice

Then it was back to sounds of the city, including a deafening siren, this time at another Cagean waltz site: Lexington Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets. Make Music hatched the notion of posting a flutist at 49 of the Cage locations as a small contribution to the urban soundtrack. Amid the onslaught here, there wasn’t much a lone flutist could do but blend in and fight to be heard occasionally. Katie Cox, a New York freelancer, put up a game fight, improvising in what she took to be the manner of Cage, mostly abandoning long lines in favor of fragmentary phrases, using extended techniques to produce everything from mere hoarse breaths to yelps. Few passers-by even took notice. J.O.

VIC FIRTH BUCKET DRUMMING, 4 P.M.

Pick Up Sticks

And more noisy drumming, this time on plastic instruments, ranging from industrial-size buckets to small flower pots. The drumsticks, however, were the real thing and then some, prime items made by the Vic Firth Company — founded by Firth, a longtime timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who died in 2015. Matthew Finch, a composer and organizer of Make Music, held forth in front of a fountain in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village and became a magnet for passers-by. Two talented young men joined him on buckets, followed by Max Orenstein, an excellent trumpeter from Miami, who led them through “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Then all retired to a nearby piano, one of the many scattered around the city this month by Sing for Hope, where the two young men improvised on the keyboard, along with Mr. Orenstein on trumpet and Mr. Finch still on pots. J.O.