Dust and Echoes

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Dust and Echoes
Album:	Halo: Original Soundtrack
Composer(s):	Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori
Length:	2:49
Previous:	Shadows
Next:	Halo

Dust and Echoes is the twenty-fifth track in Halo: Original Soundtrack.

Overview

The track opens with an eerie ambiance, quickly followed by reversed strings, which build up to a climax. The eerie ambiance continued, soon joined by the male choir, singing the main melody The Maw. The eerie ambiance briefly returns before strings take over, somberly playing a variation of the Halo Theme.

Appearances

An extended version of the opening eerie ambiance plays in level Keyes, during the cutscene where John-117 retrieves the Flood-assimilated Captain's neural implants from the Proto-Gravemind. The track plays in full during the final cutscene of the level The Maw, when John-117 escapes the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.

Arrangements

The track has been arranged into the following:

• Wake Me When You Need Me in the Halo 3: Original Soundtrack.
• Flotsam, Jetsam in the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: Original Soundtrack.

Production notes

The name is derived from Cortana's quote upon scanning the vicinity of the destroyed Installation 04, "Just... dust and echoes. We're all that's left."