[Passively, as if he's reciting from a textbook (spoilers, he's reciting Max),]

Apparently, Noise thrive off negative emotions and have a wide variety of ways to defend themselves. This includes auditory hallucinations, where some sort of mechanism involving frequency causes our UG selves to associate the Noise with certain memories. [a beat] I assume the purpose is to amplify, as mentioned, negative emotions.

[Can you guess as to how much of a fantastic time they had in the live house?]