Vili Pääkkö (alias Vili Aarre) is a sound-based artist working mainly in contemporary performing arts and music.

Vili makes sounds that work as premonitions. To Vili being uncertain but still audible is honest and fragile in a way that can reach beyond the everyday.

In June 2025 Vili is interested in mountains, tuning, dreams and being underwater.

Vili holds a bachelors and a masters degree in sound design from the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki andi has worked mainly in Helsinki with such institutions as YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company), Finnish National Theatre, Viirus Theatre with sound designs also audible in London Contemporary Dance School, Tictac Arts Centre Brussels and HZT Berlin