Multicore
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Agreed, if you want one of the standard ways out of the corner that will sound comfortably familiar to audiences. So, for my own personal creative needs, it's best use music theory is some kind of broken form, or to show the ways out of the corner to be wary of.The best way I've heard to describe music theory is "tools to get yourself out of a creative corner".
Tonality is like an argument, and the answers to the questions are always the same. Play Gmin7, C13, and the next chord has to be one of three or four things. If you're looking to get away from that kind of thing, you have to use a different language.
And standard music theory doesn't furnish different languages. And in my experience advanced music theory or mathematics isn't very good at stimulating creative design of musical languages. Although I know some who are happy to work that way and I have great respect for Xenakis, who did, and hold up some of his work as top shelf composition.