Certain countries and studios have been particularly important to the development of EA music. Some of them are listed here (in no particular order):
IRCAM
In 1970 President Georges Pompidou asked Pierre Boulez to become the director of an institute for musical research to be attached to his planned Centre national d'Art Contemperain - now known as the Pompidou Centre.
The institute, IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Co-ordination Acoustique/Musique) was completed in 1978. This huge subterranean studio which incorporates the Espace de Projection, has been 'instrumental' in the creation of a number of important works, Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, for instance.
Read more about IRCAM at its own site.Groupe de Recherches Musicales
The electronic music studio of French radio, formed in 1958 from Schaeffer's original studio (Club d'Essai) in 1951. The composers working here still tend to create music very much in the musique concrète style.
Bourges
Site of the main annual EA music competition, also GMEB - Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (formed 1970).
Cologne
The home of pure electronic music (elektronische Musik), where Stockhausen created many of his early works.
Milan
For a time in the late 50s, after its founding by Berio and Maderna in 1955, Milan's Studio di Fonologia (at Italian Radio) was the best equipped analogue studio in Europe; for instance it boasted two Tempophons. Nono also worked here during the 50s and 60s. John Cage's Fontana Mix was produced here. The studio suffered a decline in the 70s.
Columbia-Princeton.
Created with a grant of $175,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1959, and based upon the RCA synthesiser, Columbia-Princeton rapidly became the premier studio in the USA under Luening and Ussachevsky.
Illinois University was important in the development of the use of computers in EA music in the late 50s and 60s under the direction of Lejaren Hiller.
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Studio of NHK Radio
Toshiro Mayuzumi and Makoto Moroi worked here in the mid 50s and were influenced by the serialist work being done at Cologne. Stockhausen went there in 1966 to create his Telemusik .
In the later 50s a group called Jikken Kobo, headed by Toru Takemitsu were creating pieces of musique concrète.