Not only a wonderful novella by Tim Powers, but also the title of my latest creation: Salvage & Demolition. As with the novella, it involved time travel of a sort, in addition to some salvage and demolition: I demolished a track I made earlier this year, and salvaged whatever I could use again. It so happens to be the same track which I previously scavenged for parts to use in Shades Of Memory...
https://devloop0.bandcamp.com/track/salvage-demolition
Arrangement-wise I made an utter mess of S&D. Drums and percussion from two drumkits and a couple of soundfonts are partly merged and partly separated, and routed over two aux tracks, and divided among six midi tracks. The other sounds weren't treated with much better ordering. All in all S&D has 19 midi tracks, some not containing much more than a single short note occasionally, and some others being a jumble of overlapping parts.
In spite of all that, I think S&D sounds surprisingly clean and coherent! But, does it make sense***?
Following the kind advice of a fellow forum member, I postponed publishing S&D for an entire day! The idea is learning to exercise restraint, one step at a time. But I will revise S&D a couple of times in the next couple of days, without any doubt :)**
Constructed in MusE Sequencer, with the tools:
The Black Pearl
A GM/GS drumkit
Odin2
Calf Monosynth
Pianoteq
More GM soundfonts
A variety of Calf plugins (EQ, delay, reverb, stereo tools, flanger and more)
**Of course I was right. The synth drum now sounds much better, and the song structure in the beginning is much improved.
***Edit 30-11-22: I've been searching for a couple of days for how to pound some sense into the composition. I think I found it now:)