aesthetics

[Paul Erlich:]
>I don't know what you mean.

When you write that "I think they are totally aesthetically oriented
issues" but that "there are myriad acoustically "locked" chords that
would _not_ be used in any rendition of jazz or popular music,
precisely because these styles arose from (or at least along with)
rather rigid tuning models," and that "singing these progressions one
can only go so far in retuning them before their essential structure
is lost," I see it as a contradiction.

I don't think that you have to go beyond (or outside of) "jazz or
popular music" to use say a 7:9:11 (or whatever "myriad acoustically
"locked" chords that would _not_ be used in any rendition of jazz or
popular music" that you might be speaking of) or 13e (or any tuning
system for that matter), and that this is an aesthetic point of view
(rather than the essential balances of a tuning paradigm)... and while
I respect yours, I also happen to really disagree with it. And again,
I only feel compelled to 'object' when I read things like "that would
_not_ be used in any rendition of jazz or popular music," etc.

Dan