Re-arranging is definitely one 'solution' and the only real approach when you're talking music played live on acoustic instruments. It's one of the elements of good orchestral music I find most fascinating - that many sources of noise, each playing their part and either perfectly blending or completely juxtaposing one another.
I'd argue that using all the various forms of DSP at your disposal when working with sound in the recorded / amplified sense (and especially electronic music) is an equally valid aesthetic choice. Different limitations, different capabilities and difference aesthetic possibilities for different mediums.
Re-arranging is definitely one 'solution' and the only real approach when you're talking music played live on acoustic instruments. It's one of the elements of good orchestral music I find most fascinating - that many sources of noise, each playing their part and either perfectly blending or completely juxtaposing one another.
I'd argue that using all the various forms of DSP at your disposal when working with sound in the recorded / amplified sense (and especially electronic music) is an equally valid aesthetic choice. Different limitations, different capabilities and difference aesthetic possibilities for different mediums.