Maija is a composer working in the areas of concert music, electronic instrument design and multidisciplinary performances. Timbre as her main interest, her music is fabric of texture and color. She received her PhD from the University of California Berkeley in 2022 and is working mainly as a freelance composer. In her work she uses new media, such as video and lights that are based on the home-made aesthetic, the DIY culture, that she found and researched further during her years at UC Berkeley.