People who make music aren't always called composers, and what they make aren't always called compositions. That's really just what we call classical musicians.
More often they're called songs, or sometimes just music, and the people who make them are called musicians. And if a musician makes her own music, or rather she plays the song of another person, she'll still be called a musician, but I guess in the latter case the thing she makes is called a cover, interpretation or something else. But you could still say that she's playing a song, Origamists can all have the same title even if they don't invent original work I think. And what we all make can just be called origami. Though "an origami" is a pretty bad expression unfortunately. It seems inevitable that we'll use different words for origami models depending on how we view them ourselves, or how we want others to view them. Calling an origami model a composition makes it sound complex, but calling all origami models compositions doesn't seem appropriate considering that many are meant for children to enjoy, in other words not complex. Most origamists are a lot more like pop/rock/hiphop musicians then they are like classical composers I think. They're even more like amateur musicians, since very few pursue origami with as much dedication as the average musician who practices daily for hours and even at a very young age might dream of making a living with their skill. I try to use the word sculpture a lot on my website, because I want people to think of my models as valuable art works, as permanent, and as a thing you might want to someday own. I also like sculpture because, though it doesn't convey all the ways an origami sculpture is unique and different from other sculpture, it's appropriate enough, and anyway the context always makes up for what it lacks. If someone else was to do a rendition of one of my works, I'd still like to call it a sculpture, but obviously I'd need to use another word (like a just did with "rendition") to really tell the whole story. Seth
