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It seems to me that any notes a composer choose "make sense" for that composer.
If this seems a contradiction to my remarks about atonality in the free for all---let me clarify. "Strict atonality is the conscious avoidance of all natural musical elements"
But if a composer intuitively chooses the notes he thinks best, then absolutely every note makes sense, no matter how dissonant, no matter how consonant, no matter how baroque, no matter how modern.
Definitely check out Jarrett's ohh wait...they're clavichord improvisations that Jarrett did not harpsichord. My bad. Anyway...improvisation is not "random" as so many people believe. Listen to these, you'll be in for a surprise.
OH....and unexpected things are awesome.
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